Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of pervading; a passing through the whole extent of a thing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of pervading; permeation, suffusion

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance

Etymologies

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Latin pervasio. See pervade.

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