Permeant

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Permeant \Per"me*ant\, a. [L. permeans, p. pr.]
     Passing through; permeating. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  permeant
       adj : spreading throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he
             punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of
             garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to
             more than one conclusion" [syn: {permeating}, {permeative},
              {pervasive}]