diffusive

The other primary filtering method, called diffusion, is where “the really small particles slow down and enter this diffusive zone where they fuse to the fiber,” she says.

That diffusive spread, Ross says, suggests that moving groundwater is triggering the swarm.

One of the maxims of the old Greek philosophers was that good is diffusive of itself.

And the very atmosphere of such bliss is diffusive; it seemed as if all the living creatures around understood.