Definition of Porous. Meaning of Porous. Synonyms of Porous

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Definition of Porous

Porous
Porous Por"ous, a. [Cf. F. poreux. See Pore, n.] Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. ``The veins of porous earth.' --Milton.

Meaning of Porous from wikipedia

- geology, hydrogeology, soil science, and building science, the porosity of a porous medium (such as rock or sediment) describes the fraction of void space in...
- customary to divide them into two large classes, ring-porous and diffuse-porous. In ring-porous species, such as ash, black locust, catalpa, chestnut...
- In materials science, a porous medium or a porous material is a material containing pores (voids). The skeletal portion of the material is often called...
- Porous gl**** is gl**** that includes pores, usually in the nanometre- or micrometre-range, commonly prepared by one of the following processes: through...
- Porous silicon (abbreviated as "PS" or "pSi") is a form of the chemical element silicon that has introduced nanopores in its microstructure, rendering...
- fluid mechanics, fluid flow through porous media is the manner in which fluids behave when flowing through a porous medium, for example sponge or wood...
- Permeable paving surfaces are made of either a porous material that enables stormwater to flow through it or nonporous blocks spaced so that water can...
- Porous polymers are a class of porous media materials in which monomers form 2D and 3D polymers containing angstrom- to nanometer-scale pores formed by...
- In mathematics, a porous set is a concept in the study of metric spaces. Like the concepts of meagre and measure zero sets, a porous set can be considered...
- versus aquitards; confined versus unconfined; isotropic versus anisotropic; porous, karst, or fractured; transboundary aquifer. Groundwater from aquifers can...