permeability
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- noun
- /ˌpɜrmiˈæləti/
- Specialized
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permeabilidad
- The permeability of the soil allows water to flow through it easily.
- membrane permeability
- cell permeability
- soil permeability
They had decreased levels of zonulin, which is a marker of intestinal permeability or quote UN quote leaky gut.
- They had decreased levels of zonulin, which is a marker of intestinal permeability or quote UN quote leaky gut.
- And high blood sugar leads to rapid increase in endothelial cell permeability.
- More drinking means more gut permeability.
- They keep the tight junctions nice and, and close or, you know, preventing this increase in intestinal permeability.
Examples
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So their critical function is to form a permeability barrier on the cell.
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The animals produce specific signal molecules that appear to alter the membrane permeability of the algae.
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If this is my core, if this is high permeability material, there is no H field, right?
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Different environmental features were associated with estimates of permeability for each species.
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Therefore, we assigned these areas a permeability value of 1.
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Therefore, we did not include the barriers in the permeability model for this species.
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Now I've said repeatedly that these the permeability of these shales is very low, very, very low.
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Woodland, forest, shrubland, and riparian areas typically were assigned higher permeability values than other land-cover classes.
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EDTA increases the permeability of bacterial cells and allows antibiotics to penetrate them.
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We are working on a two-foot recompacted clay liner that has a 10-7 permeability rating.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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How easily water or air pass through a material
How easily liquid moves through a material
The ability of a material to let gases or water vapor pass through it
How easily water moves through rock or soil
How easily light or heat passes through a material
How easily people, light, or other things can pass through something
Antonyms
How Permeable
- Specialized
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- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Permeability comes from Latin parts per- 'through' and a root meaning 'to go', so it originally means how easily something 'goes through' a material. Think of the verb permeate 'to pass through'; permeability is the ability of a material to let liquids or gases pass through it.