effusion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A liquid outpouring.
Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
An outpouring of speech or emotion.
The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.

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effusion effusions

Borrowed from Middle French effusion, from Latin effūsiō (“outpouring”). Displaced native Old English āgotennes.

infusion

effusive

choroidal effusion effusiometer noneffusion

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