porosity

English

Etymology

From porous +‎ -ity.

Noun

porosity (countable and uncountable, plural porosities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being porous.

   Synonym: porousness

   • 2004, Frank Hamer with 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) (powkê), تخلخل (fa) (taxalxol)
• 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) (powkê), تخلخل (fa) (taxalxol)
• Polish: porowatość (pl) f
• Portuguese: porosidade (pt) f
• Russian: по́ристость (ru) f (póristostʹ)
• Spanish: porosidad (es) f
• Tagalog: kabugaan

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