Definitions for porous
ˈpɔr əs, ˈpoʊr-por·ous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.7 / 3 votes

1. porousadjective

   able to absorb fluids

   "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"

2. porous, poriferousadjective

   full of pores or vessels or holes

3. holey, porousadjective

   allowing passage in and out

   "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. porousadjective

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

2. porousadjective

   (Of legislation) full of loopholes

3. porousadjective

   With many gaps.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Porousadjective

   Having small spiracles or passages.

   Etymology: poreux, Fr. from pore.

   The rapid current, which through veins
   Of porous earth with kindly thirst updrawn,
   Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill
   Water’d the garden. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. iv.

   Of light the greater part he took, and plac’d
   In the sun’s orb, made porous to receive
   And drink the liquid light; firm to retain
   Her gather’d beams; great palace now of light. John Milton.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. porous

   Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0% and 100%. Strictly speaking, some tests measure the "accessible void", the total amount of void space accessible from the surface (cf. closed-cell foam). There are many ways to test porosity in a substance or part, such as industrial CT scanning. The term porosity is used in multiple fields including pharmaceutics, ceramics, metallurgy, materials, manufacturing, petrophysics, hydrology, earth sciences, soil mechanics, and engineering.

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1. porous

   Porous refers to a material or structure having minute spaces or holes through which liquid or air may pass. It essentially describes something that is permeable to fluids, often due to the presence of microscopic pores or openings.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Porousnoun

   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

2. Etymology: [Cf. F. poreux. See Pore, n.]

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of porous in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of porous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of porous in a Sentence

1. Sarah Palin:

   Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk.

2. Eric Schmitt:

   Time and again, the Biden administration has refused to take concrete action to quell the worsening border crisis, inviting the cartels and human drug smugglers to take advantage of our porous border, without a border wall, illegal immigrants, coyotes, and bad actors can simply march across our southern border and into the interior. The border wall needs to be built, the funds have been appropriated to continue to build the wall, and yet the Biden Administration outright refuses to do so.

3. Carlos Soto:

   I'm very worried about Venezuela because there's no sanitary conditions and that means they could have the fungus and not even know it, and with such a porous border, illegal commerce and migration, it could be dangerous.

4. Mwenda Njoka:

   There is a boundary that is being constructed around the Kenya Somali border, it has been porous for a long time because the previous government have not taken serious action. [ But ] in the recent past we have established a border patrol police, a specialist police.

5. North Florida:

   If we had to isolate someone on-campus, we would want a room that's a single room that has its own bathroom where a person would isolate, and my recommendation would be that there's no porous-type furniture in there. You wouldn't want an upholstery type of thing, no rugs, because it makes it easier to keep clean afterwards.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=porous
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Porous
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=porous
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porous
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/porous