Porous Definition

pôrəs
adjective
Full of pores, through which fluids, air, or light may pass.
Webster's New World
Easily crossed or penetrated.
A porous border.
American Heritage

Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.

Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food.
Concrete is porous, so water will slowly filter through it.
Wiktionary

(Of legislation) Full of loopholes.

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(figuratively) With many gaps.

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Origin of Porous

  • Middle English from Old French poreux, poros from Medieval Latin porōsus from Latin porus passage pore2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Porous Sentence Examples

  • The porous soil absorbs the moisture, and fresh water is scarce.

  • Porous carbon blocks, made by strongly heating a mixture of powdered charcoal with oil, resin, &c., were introduced about a generation later, and subsequently various preparations of iron (spongy iron, magnetic oxide) found favour.

  • Thus, while the mineral may be formed in a stratum other than that in which it is found, though in many cases it is indigenous to it, for the formation of a natural reservoir of the fluid (whether liquid or gas) it is necessary that there should be a suitable porous rock to contain it.

  • The main requisites for a productive oil or gas field are a porous reservoir and an impervious cover.

  • If, however, no porous division be used to prevent the intermingling by diffusion of the anode and cathode solutions, a complicated set of subsidiary reactions takes place.

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Words Starting With

PPOPOR

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SUSOUS

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porous

Words Starting With P and Ending With S

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With S