[
UK
/ɪmpˈɜːməbəl/
]
ADJECTIVE
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preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through
an impermeable layer of scum
impermeable stone
a coat impermeable to rain
How To Use impermeable In A Sentence
- an impermeable layer of scum
- Equipped to float with impermeable canvas skirts, these tanks were to propel themselves to the beach with an ad hoc propellor and then resume normal operation.
- Because this layer should permit passage of fluid, impermeable dressings are not recommended.
- Thus, the soil liner significantly losses its effectiveness as an impermeable barrier.
- The gasket has a core that is impermeable to liquids, with a first side and a second side opposite the first side.
- Water cannot easily flow in these impermeable rocks.
- The aquifer has no shield of impermeable clay and the proposed artificial barriers would not guarantee success.
- Condoms are essentially impermeable to particles the size of STD pathogens including the smallest sexually transmitted virus.
- Local media have questioned some projects, such as draining water from the chain of lakes outside the Old Summer Palace ruins to install an impermeable membrane that would stop water from seeping into the ground.
- The descending limb of the loop of Henle is water-permeable but relatively solute-impermeable.