impermeable

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How to pronounce impermeable in British English: 英 [ɪmˈpɜ:miəbl]word uk audio image

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  • Adjective:
    preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through

单词词源

impermeable (adj.)
1690s, from French imperméable, from Late Latin impermeabilis, from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + permeabilis (see permeable).

双语例句

1. Yet the methods of culturing and studying human cells have traditionally been carried out in two dimensions on flat impermeable surfaces .
2. It insists that the chinese walls separating its traders and bankers are always impermeable .
3. Landfills without the benefit of a naturally impermeable layer use plastic liners and imported clay .
4. Of such close construction as to be impermeable .
5. Fracking takes place thousands of feet below the water table , and fracking zones are typically separated from groundwater by fairly impermeable rocks .

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