POROSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does porosity mean? 

• POROSITY (noun)
  The noun POROSITY has 1 sense:

1. the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids

  Familiarity information: POROSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POROSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

porosity; porousness

Hypernyms ("porosity" is a kind of...):

body; consistence; consistency; substance (the property of holding together and retaining its shape)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "porosity"):

sponginess (the porosity of a sponge)

permeability; permeableness (the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion))

Antonym:

solidity (the consistency of a solid)

Derivation:

porous (full of pores or vessels or holes)

porous (able to absorb fluids)

 Context examples 

The porosity also helps explain their shape: Rather than being spherical, they are blobby and ravioli-like, with material stuck around their equators.

(NASA's Cassini Finds Saturn's Rings Coat Tiny Moons, NASA)

Porosity, the void space in rock, was conventionally thought to be produced when water flows through rock, resulting in minerals that chemically dissolve.

(Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada, National Science Foundation)

Water permeates through the membrane to the core to dissolve the ingredient(s) which subsequently exit the membrane at a rate determined by their solubility and the thickness and porosity of the membrane.

(Diffusion Controlled Extended Release Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)