Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of permeating, or the state of being permeated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The movement of a
fluid through aporous orpermeable solid . - noun medicine The
spreading of something (especially something malignant) through the body viablood vessels etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
- noun mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other
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Examples
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Socialist, rejected the Marxian in favour of Jevonsian economics, and devoted itself to the social education of the public by means of lectures, pamphlets and books, and to the spread of Collectivist ideas by the "permeation" of public bodies and political parties.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Podmore as Secretary for Oxford and G.W. Johnson for Cambridge, had begun the "permeation" of the Universities, which has always been an important part of the propaganda of the Society.
The History of the Fabian Society Edward R. Pease 1906
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a kind of permeation that goes beyond anything verbal.
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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.
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'permeation' of general opinion by the ideas of these thinkers and investigators ....
The History of the Fabian Society Edward R. Pease 1906
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These include: an inherent Pakistani-Muslim tendency toward violence, reactionary 'Islamic fundamentalist' laws in this case, Pakistan's blasphemy law, and just the overall permeation of religious extremism throughout all corners of the country -- including even within the governor's own elite security guards.
Junaid S. Ahmad: More To Pakistan Than Blasphemy Law Junaid S. Ahmad 2011
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And there may be some small holes in her argument: Music went through centuries of widespread cultural permeation before it could birth rock.
Kicking The Dog SVGL 2009
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And there may be some small holes in her argument: Music went through centuries of widespread cultural permeation before it could birth rock.
Archive 2009-04-01 SVGL 2009
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The growth of large multilamellar fatty acid vesicles fed with fatty acid micelles, in a solution where solute permeation across the membranes is slow, results in the transformation of initially spherical vesicles into long thread-like vesicles, a process driven by the transient imbalance between surface area and volume growth.
Better Bubbles 2009
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These include: an inherent Pakistani-Muslim tendency toward violence, reactionary 'Islamic fundamentalist' laws in this case, Pakistan's blasphemy law, and just the overall permeation of religious extremism throughout all corners of the country -- including even within the governor's own elite security guards.
Junaid S. Ahmad: More To Pakistan Than Blasphemy Law Junaid S. Ahmad 2011
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