percolation

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Such calculations could ultimately improve scientists' understanding of complex processes like turbulence and percolation.

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

And this best cup of coffee occurs at what is known as the directed percolation transition.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

Directed percolation: a process where connections or flows occur in a specific direction, often used to model the spread of substances through a medium.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

Somewhere in between is a critical value, called the percolation threshold, at which the fluid begins to flow all the way across the network.

From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023

Lysimeter, lī-sim′e-tėr, n. an instrument for measuring the rate of percolation of rain through a soil.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various