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permeable
adjective as in absorbent, penetrable
Example Sentences
Sci-fi series mainly about love, whose lead characters fall afoul of quantum physics and permeable realities.
For instance, a membrane that is studded with large holes might be highly permeable, meaning a lot of water can be pumped through using very little energy.
He thinks creating a native habitat in his front yard and installing rain barrels and a permeable driveway in the face of record-breaking heat waves is a good place to start.
What’s under examination is the strange permeable barrier between life and death, and the way it appears to those who are left behind to deal with the fallout.
These areas have coarse-grained sand, gravel and cobbles that make for highly permeable pathways to replenish groundwater.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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