Permeation

3 definitions found

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

  Permeation \Per`me*a"tion\, n.
     The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading
     throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual


           permeation and inexistence.              --Bp. Hall.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  permeation
       n 1: the process of permeating or infusing something with a
            substance [syn: {pervasion}, {suffusion}]
       2: mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other
          [syn: {interpenetration}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "permeation":
     brewing, decoction, diffusion, drench, drenching, ducking, dunking,
     imbruement, imbuement, impregnation, infiltration, infusion,
     injection, instillation, instillment, interpenetration, leaching,
     lixiviation, maceration, marination, overrunning, overspreading,
     overswarming, penetration, percolation, pervasion, pulping,
     saturation, seething, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse,
     sousing, steeping, suffusion, transfusion