percolation

English

Etymology

From Latin percōlātiō.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɝkəˈleɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɜːkəˈleɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: per‧co‧la‧tion

Noun

percolation (countable and uncountable, plural percolations)

1. The seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance.
   • 2015, Tathagata Paul, Subhamoy Ghatak, Arindam Ghosh, “Percolative switching in transition metal dichalcogenide field-effect transistors at room temperature”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     With simultaneous measurement of channel conductivity and its slow time-dependent fluctuation (or noise) in ultra-thin WSe2 and MoS2 FETs on insulating SiO2 substrates, where noise arises from McWhorter-type carrier number fluctuations, we establish that the switching in conventional backgated TMDC FETs is a classical percolation transition in a medium of inhomogeneous carrier density distribution.

Related terms

• percolate
• percolation theory

Translations

seepage or filtration of a liquid

• Bulgarian: процеждане (bg) n (proceždane), филтриране n (filtrirane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 滲濾 / 渗滤 (zh) (shènlǜ), 過濾 / 过滤 (zh) (guòlǜ)

• Dutch: doorsijpelen (nl)
• Estonian: perkolatsioon, nõrgumine
• Finnish: tihkuminen (fi), perkolaatio
• French: percolation (fr) f
• German: Perkolation (de) f, Versickerung f, Durchsickerung f
• Italian: percolazione f, percolamento m
• Japanese: 濾過 (ja) (ろか, roka)
• Latin: percōlātiō f
• Latvian: perkolācija, caursūkšanās
• Lithuanian: sunkimasis
• Persian: پرکولاسیون (perkolâsion)
• Portuguese: percolação (pt) f
• Romanian: percolare (ro) f
• Russian: проце́живание (ru) n (procéživanije), проса́чивание (ru) n (prosáčivanije)
• Swedish: perkolering c, perkolation c
• Tagalog: paninilas, saimsim

Anagrams

• Neotropical, neotropical

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin percōlātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.kɔ.la.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

percolation f (plural percolations)

1. percolation

Further reading

• “percolation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.