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Definition of Porous

1. Adjective. Able to absorb fluids. "Compacting the soil to make it less porous"

2. Adjective. Full of pores or vessels or holes.

3. Adjective. Allowing passage in and out. "Our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"

Definition of Porous

1. a. Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.

Definition of Porous

1. Adjective. Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through. ¹

2. Adjective. (Of legislation) full of loopholes ¹

3. Adjective. (figuratively) With many gaps. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Porous

1. having minute openings [adj] : POROUSLY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Porous

poromerics poroporo pororoca pororocas porose poroses porosimeter porosimetry porosis porosities

porosity porosome porosomes porotic porotics porous (current term) porously porousness porousnesses porpentine

porpentines porpess porpesse porpesses porphin porphine porphines porphins porphobilinogen porphobilinogens

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