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permeability


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Permeability  \Per`me*a*bil"i*ty\,  n.  [Cf.  F. 
  perm['e]abilit['e].] 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  permeability 
  n  :  the  property  of  something  that  can  be  pervaded  by  a  liquid 
  (as  by  osmosis  or  diffusion)  [syn:  {permeableness}]  [ant: 
  {impermeability}] 




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