Look up: permeability

1. Permeability
   The rate at which liquids pass through soil or other materials in a specified direction.
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2. Permeability
   The property of bulk material (sand, crushed rock, soft rock in situ) which permit movement of water through its pores.
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3. Permeability
   As used in insect toxicology refers to the ability of chemicals to penetrate the insect cuticle.
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4. permeability
   [n] - the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion)
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5. Permeability
   The degree to which a body of rock will permit a fluid to flow through it. Permeability is a function of the shape of the capillary pore spaces and the degree to which pores are connected. Impermeable rock is not permeable.
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6. Permeability
   A measure of the ease with which a fluid can flow through a porous medium. It depends on the physical properties of the medium, for example grain size, porosity and pore shape.
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7. Permeability
   passage or diffusion of a gas, vapor, liquid, or solid through a material without physically or chemically affecting it.Term used to express various relationships between magnetic induction and magnetizing force; either absolute permeability or specific (relative) permeability. See also: Relative Magnetic Permeability.
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8. permeability
   Ability or power to enter or pass through a cell membrane.
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9. Permeability
   The property of a formation which quantifies the flow of a fluid through the pore spaces and into the wellbore.
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10. Permeability
    a measure of the ability of a rock to transmit fluid through pore spaces.
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11. permeability
    the property of a formation which quantifies the flow of a fluid through the pore spaces and into the wellbore;
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12. Permeability
    The degree to which a fluid can pass from one structure through a wall or membrane into another
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13. permeability
    The percentage volume of a space that can be flooded.When a compartment contains cargo,fuel,etc.the amount of water which can enter on damage is less than the volume of the empty compartment. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • the readiness with whi...
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14. Permeability
    This is the ability of a material to let water pass through it and drain away.
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15. Permeability
    The rate at which liquids pass through soil or other materials in a specified direction.
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16. Permeability
    Per`me·a·bil'i·ty noun [ Confer French perméabilité .] The quality or state of being permeable. Magnetic permeability (Physics) , the specific capacity of a body for magnetic induction, or its conducting power for lines of magnetic force. Sir W. Thomson.
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17. permeability
    The property or state of being permeable. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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18. permeability
    permeableness noun the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion)
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19. permeability
    (pur″me-ә-bil´ĭ-te) the property or state of being permeable.
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20. Permeability
    • (n.) The quality or state of being permeable.
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21. permeability
    capacity of a porous material for transmitting a fluid; it is expressed as the velocity with which a fluid of specified viscosity, under the ... [10 related articles]
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22. permeability
    the property or state of being permeable.
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23. permeability
    permeability The property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid; as by osmosis or diffusion.
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24. Permeability
    A measure of the ability of soil, sediments, and rock to transport water horizontally and vertically. Permeability is dependent on the porosity of the medium the water is flowing through. Some rocks like granite have very poor permeability, while rocks like shale are actually quite pervious. As for soils, sand is the most pervious, while cl...
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25. PERMEABILITY
    The property of rock or soil permitting water to pass through it. Primary permeability depends on interconnecting pores between the grains of the material. Secondary permeability depends on solutional widening of joints and bedding planes and on other solution cavities in the rock.
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