Usually means: Allows substances to pass through.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. permeable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. permeable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. permeable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. permeable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. permeable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Permeable, permeable: Wordnik
  7. permeable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. permeable: Wiktionary
  9. permeable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. permeable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. permeable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. permeable: Dictionary.com
  13. permeable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Permeable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Permeable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. permeable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. permeable: Rhymezone
  18. Permeable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. permeable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. permeable: Free Dictionary
  21. permeable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. permeable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Permeable: Health & Beauty Glossary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. permeable: Legal dictionary
  3. permeable: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. permeable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  4. permeable: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. permeable: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. permeable: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  2. Permeable: Beauty & Health Glossary
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Able to be permeated; absorbing or allowing the passage of fluids.
adjective:  (by extension) Allowing the passage of persons, information, or other things, especially when such passage occurs despite hopes or expectations otherwise.

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