permeation
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- noun
- /ˌpɜrmiˈeɪʃən/
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permeación
- The permeation of ideas across cultures often leads to rich exchanges and the development of new perspectives.
- market permeation
Examples
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From another perspective, a collection of prominent economists developed a number of compelling arguments about the narrow-minded biases and blind spots of neoclassical economics itself: from its permeation with extreme ideology to its self-deceptive distortion of environmental issues and poverty.
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We are dealing, so to speak, with the permeation of the intellectual by the irrational and of the unconscious by the conscious.
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Second, entrepreneurship education represents the opportunity to further study the impacts of market permeation and academic capitalism on community colleges.
Academic text (2012) -
The permeation of boundaries between public and private enacted by the hotel is visible in most architectural spaces that James visits in America.
Academic text (2018) -
Rather than taking for granted the surface meaning of text and other communication, they look for underlying contextual influences and ideological permeation.
Academic text (2005) -
This substance reduces cracking, surface bleed water, and water permeation while increasing concrete compressive strengths and erosion resistance.
Academic text (1998) -
ii) Monopolies operating in the realm of control of world financial flows: the increasing permeation of major financial institutions that operate on the world financial market has given these monopolies an efficacy without precedent.
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In the context of academic capitalism, entrepreneurship education provides a somewhat counterintuitive case of market permeation working to counteract, rather than promote and sustain, the cooling-out tendencies of the community college.
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The permeation of the dye throughout the fabric created a vibrant color that transformed the entire piece.
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Scientists are studying the permeation of oxygen through the membrane to improve storage methods for fruits.
Synonyms
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The spreading of people or things across a wide area
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5.8
Spreading ideas or customs to many places
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6.8
Slow movement of water into and through soil or rock
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The spread of something through a place until it is present everywhere
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A slow spread of color, light, or feeling through something
Liquid slowly passing through soil or a filter
Antonyms
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Permeation comes from the Latin parts per- meaning 'through' and meare meaning 'to go', so it originally meant 'going through'; think of water slowly moving through a sponge, which is exactly what permeation is — something passing or spreading through another thing.