PERMEATION Synonyms

• (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration

• the spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another

• the property of being diffused or dispersed

• the act of dispersing or diffusing something

• material with which something is impregnated

• the process of totally saturating something with a substance

• creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant

• a process in which individuals (or small groups) penetrate an area (especially the military penetration of enemy positions without detection)

• the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium

• the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder

• any entry into an area not previously occupied

• (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body

• the process of totally saturating something with a substance

• the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid

• a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence

• chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue

• the process of seeping

• the action of penetrating between or among

• mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other

• the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance