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We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.
Drew Bledsoe

Meaning of "porous" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD POROUS

From Medieval Latin porōsus, from Late Latin poruspore².
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF POROUS

porous  [ˈpɔːrəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POROUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Porous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES POROUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

porous

Porosity

Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0 and 100%. There are many ways to test porosity in a substance or part, such as industrial CT scanning. The term porosity is used in multiple fields including pharmaceutics, ceramics, metallurgy, materials, manufacturing, earth sciences, soil mechanics and engineering.

Definition of porous in the English dictionary

The first definition of porous in the dictionary is permeable to water, air, or other fluids. Other definition of porous is having pores; poriferous. Porous is also easy to cross or penetrate.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POROUS


allosaurus
ˌæləˈsɔːrəs
aposporous
ˌæpəˈspɔːrəs
arthrosporous
ˌɑːθrəˈspɔːrəs
basidiosporous
bæˌsɪdɪəʊˈspɔːrəs
chorus
ˈkɔːrəs
exosporous
ˌeksəʊˈspɔːrəs
Horus
ˈhɔːrəs
imporous
ɪmˈpɔːrəs
Matamoros
ˌmætəˈmɔːrəs
microporous
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈpɔːrəs
microsporous
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈspɔːrəs
Miraflores
ˌmɪrəˈflɔːrəs
nonporous
nɒnˈpɔːrəs
oosporous
ˌəʊəˈspɔːrəs
sonorous
səˈnɔːrəs
Taurus
ˈtɔːrəs
tetrasporous
ˌtɛtrəˈspɔːrəs
thesaurus
θɪˈsɔːrəs
torus
ˈtɔːrəs
tyrannosaurus
tɪˌrænəˈsɔːrəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POROUS

porogamic
porogamy
poromeric
poroscope
poroscopic
poroscopy
porose
porosis
porosities
porosity
porously
porousness
porpentine
porpess
porphyria
porphyric
porphyries
porphyrin
porphyrite
porphyritic

WORDS THAT END LIKE POROUS

amorous
carnivorous
dangerous
decorous
dolorous
glamorous
herbivorous
humorous
indecorous
insectivorous
malodorous
phosphorous
rancorous
rigorous
splendorous
stertorous
traitorous
tumorous
unglamorous
vaporous
vigorous

Synonyms and antonyms of porous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «POROUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «porous» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of porous

Translation of «porous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POROUS

Find out the translation of porous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of porous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «porous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

多孔的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poroso
570 millions of speakers

English

porous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

झरझरा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مسامية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пористый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

poroso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঝাঁঝর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

poreux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berliang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

porös
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

小穴の多い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

다공성의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Keropos
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

xốp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நுண்ணிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सच्छिद्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gözenekli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poroso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

porowate
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пористий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

poros
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πορώδη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

poreuse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

porös
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

porøs
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of porous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POROUS»

The term «porous» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.190 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POROUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about porous

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9 QUOTES WITH «POROUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word porous.
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Drew Bledsoe
We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.
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Paul Broun
We have people from the Middle East, from Asia, from all over the world that are coming through the southern border. Some are coming to work. But it's a porous border that would allow terrorists, al Qaeda and other entities to come in this country who want to do America harm. That's the reason securing the border is a national security issue.
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Michael Chabon
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
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Luis Fortuno
Contrary to Eastern Europe, where the border was more porous and you could exchange information more easily, Cuba is an island. Thus, it is more isolated, and it's easier for the government to have great control over its citizens.
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Lindsey Graham
The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous.
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Zoe Lister-Jones
I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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Michael Mandelbaum
The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
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Barbara Steele
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Richard Thomas
If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries - that is, if they listen to each other and really talk to each other - then they are bound to trade ideas that are mutual to each other and be influenced by each other. That mutual influence and open system of working creates collaboration.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POROUS»

Discover the use of porous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to porous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Porous Media Fluid Transport and Pore Structure
Porous Media Fluid Transport and Pore Structure
F Dullien, 2012
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Porous Polymers
This book gathers the various aspects of the porous polymer field into one volume.
Michael S. Silverstein, Neil R. Cameron, Marc A. Hillmyer, 2011
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Convection in Porous Media
The book will be of use not only to researchers and practicing engineers as a review and reference, but also to graduate students and others entering the field.
Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan, 2012
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Gas Transport in Porous Media
Describing gas and vapor transport processes in porous media, this text provides a combination of theoretical, computational, experimental and field studies, as well as discussing modern applications of gas transport in porous media.
Clifford K. Ho, Stephen W. Webb, 2006
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Handbook of Porous Media, Second Edition
All the above studies (Sections 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5) describe the momentum conservation in the porous medium using the Darcy model. The effect of the curvature on the necessary N value to pass from the clockwise to the anticlockwise rolls ...
Kambiz Vafai, 2005
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Porous Pavements
The book begins with five chapters that lay a foundation for all porous pavement materials and applications, introducing the types of materials and arrangements, their roles in the urban environment, and the principles of pavement structure ...
Bruce K. Ferguson, 2005
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Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous Media, Mathematical and ...
This volume contains research papers written and edited by prominent researchers working with the mathematical and numerical treatment of fluid flow and transport in porous media.
Zhangxin Chen, Richard E. Ewing, 2002
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Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
This book, "Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media," presents a set of new developments in the field of basic and applied research work on the physical and chemical aspects of heat and mass transfer phenomena in a porous medium domain, as ...
J.M.P.Q. Delgado, 2011
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Porous Media: Theory, Experiments and Numerical Applications
The present volume offers a state-of-the-art report on the various recent sci entific developments in the Theory of Porous Media (TPM) comprehending the basic theoretical concepts in continuum mechanics on porous and mul tiphasic materials ...
Wolfgang Ehlers, J. Bluhm, 2002
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Homogenization and Porous Media
This book offers a systematic, rigorous treatment of upscaling procedures related to physical modeling for porous media on micro-, meso- and macro-scales, including detailed studies of micro-structure systems and computational results for ...
Ulrich Hornung, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POROUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term porous is used in the context of the following news items.
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America and Turkey to create Syria buffer-zone as tensions rise over …
Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Government has long wanted a no-fly zone across its long and often porous frontier with Syria, but Washington has ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
2
Case Of Illegal Haredi Construction Could “Spark A Religious War …
But because this is Israel where the rule of law is very porous, police are often inept and, in haredi cities, are oftentimes functioning under the ... «FailedMessiah.com, Jul 15»
3
Countdown to Texas A&M camp: SEC media pegged Aggies' 6th …
... season, media picked A&M second, and the Aggies responded with a fourth-place showing (primarily because of a porous defense). «Chron.com, Jul 15»
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Opinionator | 10 Things I'd Tell My Former (Medicated) Self
Let your skin become not thicker, but more porous, so love can seep in. Let your friends stop by unannounced to make sure you haven't spent ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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From dating to driving, hackers hit where it hurts
... an Internet with a privacy record so porous you might as well have posted your philander-ads and giblets pics on a billboard overlooking I-95. «InfoWorld, Jul 15»
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Wall coating repels urine using nanotechnology to spray offenders
... so that breeze blocks can be made non-porous, walls hydrophobic and gloves completely dry even when submerged in water, for example. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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High-Performance 3-D Silicon Anodes Made From Reed Leaves
…given the sustainable and facile nature of the synthesis procedure, the described 3D porous Si-C nanocomposite has a great potential as a ... «CleanTechnica, Jul 15»
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Documented Irresponsibility
Both Democratic and Republican administrations have left the border with Mexico porous for years — porous not just for Mexicans but for ... «AmmoLand Shooting Sports News, Jul 15»
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Confederate soldier statue in Montgomery spray-painted with 'black …
“There are challenges in cleaning it up because it's porous granite.” Perry Stein covers the happenings in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. local. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
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Everything you need to know about Cowboys' NFC East rivals …
Last year: Another bad early stretch led to second straight losing season and third year in row out of playoffs. Injuries and porous defense were ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»

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