porous
pronunciation
How to pronounce porous in British English:
UK [ˈpɔːrəs]
How to pronounce porous in American English:
US [ˈpɔːrəs]
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- Adjective:
- able to absorb fluids
- full of pores or vessels or holes
- allowing passage in and out
Word Origin
- porous (adj.)
- late 14c., "full of pores," from Old French poros (14c., Modern French poreux), from Medieval Latin porosus; or directly from Latin porus "an opening" (see pore (n.)). Figurative use from 1640s.
Example
- 1. Some may drift off across porous borders .
- 2. Oxygen drawn from the air reacts within the porous carbon to release the electrical charge in this lithium-air battery .
- 3. Future research will focus on protecting them better and investigating the use of a thin porous film to make them more robust .
- 4. The new component is made of porous carbon , which is far less expensive than the lithium cobalt oxide it replaces .
- 5. They exposed one side of their porous carbon electrode to an electrolyte rich in lithium ions and put a mesh window on the other side of the electrode through which air could be drawn .