Absorbent vs Pervious - What's the difference?
absorbent | pervious | Related terms |
Having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive.
Anything which absorbs.
* 1839 , , 1972, Forgotten Books,
(physiology, pluralized, now, rare) The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.
(medicine) Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
(chemistry) A liquid used in the process of separating gases or volatile liquids, in oil refining.
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Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
* Alexander Pope
Accepting of new ideas.
Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
(obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
(zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
As adjectives the difference between absorbent and pervious
is that absorbent is having the ability or tendency to absorb; able to soak up liquid easily; absorptive while pervious is admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.As a noun absorbent
is anything which absorbs.absorbent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Those paper towels were amazingly absorbent . That was quite a spill.
Derived terms
* absorbent ground * nonabsorbentNoun
(en noun)page 225,
- In the Southern Ocean the winter is not so excessively cold, but the summer is far less hot, for the clouded sky seldom allows the sun to warm the ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat: and hence the mean temperature of the year is low.
References
pervious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a pervious soil
- [Doors] pervious to winds, and open every way.
- God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
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