permeate
verb (used with object)
to pass into or through every part of.
permeation
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a word derived from
permeate.
Example Sentences
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To address this, despite the name, metal-air batteries typically require additional equipment such as an oxygen permeation membrane to either purify oxygen or selectively use atmospheric oxygen.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
With these so-called legacy materials, methods to prevent or remedy leaching, permeation and other issues are well known, says environmental engineer Andrew Whelton of Purdue University.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2022
The permeation through healthcare is particularly noticeable in three areas: cardiology, sleep medicine, and sports medicine.
From The Verge ● Nov. 1, 2021
Let me attest, at the outset, to the hauntingly powerful—and, now, almost twenty-five years on, probably unreplicable—cultural permeation that the songs on Alanis Morissette’s third album, “Jagged Little Pill,” achieved after its release, in 1995.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
But instead of this policy of "isolation" which in school matters is the ordinary policy of the Church, some Catholics, in view of circumstances, rather advocate that of "permeation."
From Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly
