NOUN
- the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
- mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other
How To Use permeation In A Sentence
- I would suggest that deserted men dying in a dark hole might well be called 'social stratification'; and that soldiers sold into slavery by barbarians might be known as 'the ethnographical permeation policy.' G.K.'s Weekly - The Horror
- Admitting the existence of two principal solid masses whose general direction is from south to north, and that these masses are more susceptible of permeation by the ethereal fluid than the waters in which they are suspended, we have a general solution of the position of the magnetic poles, and of the isogonic, isoclinic, and isodynamic lines. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
- members of the Fabian Society, an important British SOCIALIST society founded in 1883 which favored an evolutionary SOCIALIST "permeation" of CAPITALIST institutions and opposed the REVOLUTIONARY doctrine of MARX. Concise Dictionary of Religion
- This idea is supported by experiments that showed dye permeation through suberized walls of epidermal cells.
- According to the simplest scenario, the blocking process can be viewed as being completely independent from permeation.
- This cavity is connected to outside through channels with threefold and fourfold symmetry that are thought to provide permeation pathways for iron ions and protons, essential for proper functioning of ferritin as an iron depository.
- a kind of permeation that goes beyond anything verbal. Rachael Freed: Legacy: Honoring Our Mothers
- 'permeation' of general opinion by the ideas of these thinkers and investigators .... The History of the Fabian Society
- This emphasizes isoform-specific functions in relation to tissue water permeation or growth as well as differential responses to varying extents of the same abiotic stressor.
- When an ancient treasure of precious vessels, overscored with glowing gems and wrought artistically into wondrous shapes, has, by a prodigious process, been converted through a vast community into the small change, the simple circulating medium of dollars and 'nickels,' we can only say that the consequent permeation will be of values of a new order. An Englishman Looks at the World