porosity

porosity

English

Noun

porosity (countable and uncountable, plural porosities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being porous
   • 2004, Frank Hamer; Janet Hamer, The Potter's Dictionary of Materials and Techniques, 5th edition, London; Philadelphia, Penn.: A & C Black; University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 248:

     An overfired biscuit has insufficient porosity for glazing.

2. (countable) A measure of how porous a material is; the ratio of the volume of pores to the total volume

Translations

state of being porous

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: porositat f Czech: pórovitost f Danish: porøsitet c Dutch: poreusheid (nl) f, porositeit (nl) f Finnish: huokoisuus (fi) French: porosité (fr) f German: Porösität f Ido: porozeso (io) Italian: porosità (it) f Japanese: 気孔 (ja) (kikō) Norwegian: porøsitet Persian: پوکی‎ (fa) (poukee), تخلخل‎ (fa) (takhalkhol) Polish: porowatość (pl) f Portuguese: porosidade (pt) f Russian: по́ристость (ru) f (póristostʹ) Spanish: porosidad (es) f Swedish: porositet (sv) Tagalog: kabugaan

measure of how porous a material is

Catalan: porositat f, porositat f Czech: pórovitost f Dutch: poreusheid (nl) f, porositeit (nl) f French: porosité (fr) f German: Porösität f Gujarati: છિદ્રાળુતા (chidrāḷutā) Italian: porosità (it) f Persian: پوکی‎ (fa) (poukee), تخلخل‎ (fa) (takhalkhol) Polish: porowatość (pl) f Portuguese: porosidade (pt) f Russian: по́ристость (ru) f (póristostʹ) Spanish: porosidad (es) f Tagalog: kabugaan

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