Usually means: Passage of gas through pores.
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  1. effusion: Merriam-Webster
  2. effusion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. effusion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. effusion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. effusion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Effusion, effusion: Wordnik
  7. effusion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. effusion: Wiktionary
  9. effusion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. effusion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. effusion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. effusion: Dictionary.com
  13. effusion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Effusion (disambiguation), Effusion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Effusion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. effusion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. effusion: Rhymezone
  18. Effusion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. effusion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. effusion: FreeDictionary.org
  21. effusion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. effusion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. effusion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. effusion: Legal dictionary

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  1. effusion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. effusion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Effusion: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Effusion: Merck Manuals
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  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. effusion: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. effusion: Medical dictionary
  10. Effusion: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. effusion: A Word A Day

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Effusion: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  3. effusion: UNCChem Glossary
  4. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A liquid outpouring.
noun:  (chemistry, physics) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
noun:  (medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.

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