diffusive
Americanadjective
adjective
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- diffusively adverb
- diffusiveness noun
- interdiffusive adjective
- interdiffusiveness noun
- self-diffusive adjective
- self-diffusively adverb
- self-diffusiveness noun
- undiffusive adjective
- undiffusively adverb
- undiffusiveness noun
Etymology
Origin of diffusive
Example Sentences
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The team's new approach centers on a device called a "diffusive memristor."
From Science Daily
No spoilers — but “Middlemarch” serves nicely again: “The effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive.”
From New York Times
“This could be very useful for understanding other systems. For example, Earth’s and planetary magnetospheres, other magnetized plasma sources, including experiments at laboratory scales where plasma is highly diffusive and very hard to control.”
From Fox News
We now know that electron flow can be diffusive, ballistic or viscous, and that there are experimental tools for differentiating between these regimes.
From Nature
This diffusive feature is actually what puts the “liberal” in liberal democracy and liberal capitalism.
From The Guardian
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