Permeability meaning
The rate of flow of a liquid or gas through a porous material.
noun
The ability of a substance to allow another substance to pass through it, especially the ability of a porous rock, sediment, or soil to transmit fluid through pores and cracks. Geologic permeability is usually measured in millidarcies.
Permeability is how easily liquid and gas passes through something.
An example of permeability is how fast water flows through a porous rock.
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The property or condition of being permeable.
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The state or quality of being permeable.
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Magnetic permeability.
The property of a porous substance, as rock or a membrane, of allowing the flow of a fluid through it.
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(physics) A quantitative measure of the degree of magnetization of a material in the presence of an applied magnetic field (measured in newtons per ampere squared in SI units).
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Origin of permeability
- From French perméabilité
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