Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property of being penetrant; the power of entering or piercing; penetrating power; acuteness; sharpness.
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- noun The quality or state of being
penetrant ;penetrance .
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Examples
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And this, the boiling of Horn will make more probable; for we shall find by that action, that the water will insinuate it self to a pretty depth within the surface of it, especially if this penetrancy of the water be much helped by the Salts that are usually mix'd with the Dying liquors.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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