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The answer POROUS has 87 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of porous in various dictionaries:
adj - able to absorb fluids
adj - full of pores or vessels or holes
adj - allowing passage in and out
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| Leaky |
| Allowing seepage |
| Permeable |
| Like Swiss cheese |
| Like clay |
| Holey |
| Full of holes |
| Penetrable |
| Like sponges |
| Permeable like skin |
| Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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| (Cheryl makes some stone soup) Pumice, which floats on water because of little air pockets is described as this, meaning "full of holes" and derives from the Greek for "passage" |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| (of a rock or other material) having minute interstices through which liquid or air may pass. |
| Full of or having pores. |
| Admitting the passage of gas or liquid through pores or interstices. |
| Easily crossed or penetrated. |
| able to absorb fluids |
| full of pores or vessels or holes |
| allowing passage in and out |
| Something that is porous has many small holes, so liquid or air can pass through, especially slowly: |
| not protected enough to stop people going through: |
| allowing liquid or air to pass through: |
| Porous might refer to |
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| 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, earth sciences, soil mechanics and engineering. |
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| ABSORBENT |
| LIKESWISSCHEESE |