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percolation

[pur-kuh-lay-shuhn] / ˌpɜr kəˈleɪ ʃən /


NOUN
seepage
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"Ramanujan's motivation might have been very mathematical, but without his knowledge, he was also studying black holes, turbulence, percolation, all sorts of things."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 16, 2025

Although the Hof group had demonstrated directed percolation in a circular geometry, what happens in an open geometry like a pipe remained unclear.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024

Puff jams tend to "melt" at the critical transition point from laminar to turbulent flow, giving way to the special statistical behavior of the directed percolation transition.

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

Either by rapid growth of vegetation, or by subsequent percolation of organic solutions, most of the alkalis and the lime have been carried away.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various


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