diffusive

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The new device that can enable a brain-like chip is called the "diffusive memristor" because of the ion motion and the dynamic diffusion that occurs with the use of silver.

From Science Daily • Nov. 5, 2025

While silicon systems rely on electrons to perform computations, Yang's diffusive memristors use the motion of atoms instead, creating a process that more closely resembles how biological neurons transmit information.

From Science Daily • Nov. 5, 2025

It was more of a diffusive process where the leadership faltered.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2021

Aciman, a famous Proustian, is clearly interested in the diffusive action of time and the heartaches of temps perdu.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2019

"Combining together these various indications, or sources of discrimination,—outward objects, diffusive mode or expression, inward consciousness, resulting conduct and institutions,—I adopt the following arrangement of the families or natural orders of emotion."

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert