permeability
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French perméabilité
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: per‧me‧a‧bil‧ity
Noun
permeability (usually uncountable, plural permeabilities)
- the property of being permeable
- the rate of flow of a fluid through a porous material
- (geology) a measure of the ability of a rock to transmit fluids (such as oil or water)
- (physics) a quantitative measure of the degree of magnetization of a material in the presence of an applied magnetic field (measured in newtons per ampere squared in SI units).
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Translations
property of being permeable
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rate of flow through a porous material
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measure of the ability to transmit fluids
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(physics) measure of magnetization of a material in the presence of a magnetic field
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