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S vs Pervious - What's the difference?

s | pervious |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective pervious is

admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    pervious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
    • a pervious soil
  • * Alexander Pope
    • [Doors] pervious to winds, and open every way.
  • Accepting of new ideas.
  • Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
    • God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
  • (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
    • (Prior)
  • (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds

    • Antonyms

    * impervious

    See also

    * permeable * porous

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