Associations to the word «Permeation»

Wiktionary

PERMEATION, noun. The movement of a fluid through a porous or permeable solid.
PERMEATION, noun. (medicine) The spreading of something (especially something malignant) through the body via blood vessels etc.

Dictionary definition

PERMEATION, noun. The process of permeating or infusing something with a substance.
PERMEATION, noun. Mutual penetration; diffusion of each through the other.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky