pervious
IPA: pˈɝviʌs
adjective
- Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
- Accepting of new ideas.
- Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
- (obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
- (zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
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Examples of "pervious" in Sentences
- The treated fabric is pervious to fluid.
- The pervious wording was very declamatory.
- The packing material is pervious to the fluid.
- A fleece like material may form the pervious surface.
- The particles are initially retained on a gas pervious bed.
- The drape has a fluid pervious screen covering the opening.
- Furthermore, the pervious picture was the one chosen for the main page.
- These holes will be filled with pervious concrete during the overlay procedure.
- In the process, a backing fabric is first laid on a pervious supporting surface.
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