diffusive
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- 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
Vocabulary lists containing diffusive
"The Federalist No. 10," Vocabulary from the argument
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Example Sentences
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The second type is known as diffusive transport, which occurs when motion is dominated by random collisions.
From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026
While silicon systems rely on electrons to perform computations, Yang's diffusive memristors use the motion of atoms instead, creating a process that more closely resembles how biological neurons transmit information.
From Science Daily • Nov. 5, 2025
It was more of a diffusive process where the leadership faltered.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2021
Aciman, a famous Proustian, is clearly interested in the diffusive action of time and the heartaches of temps perdu.
From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2019
The French writer is inevitably epigrammatic first, and, if diffusive afterward, it is with malice aforethought.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
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