What does transmeate mean?
Transmeate means (obsolete, rare) To pass over or beyond..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(obsolete, rare) To pass over or beyond..
“The transparency of the air, and of diaphanous bodies in general, is wholly inexplicable, if we suppose that a foreign body, emanating from a source of light, (for instance, the sun,) transmeates them; for this supposition would account for their ..."
That the space consisting solely of actives of the fourth finite and enclosed by the ethereal volume, can transmeate the atmosphere with a perfectly free current;
Its consequence is that the above tissue permeability of the root only indicates intrability of the plasm, whereas deplasmolysis experiments show the transmeating of a substance. It is then the permeability of the tonoplast that renders a passive ...
Use transmeate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Transmeate means (obsolete, rare) To pass over or beyond..
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“The transparency of the air, and of diaphanous bodies in general, is wholly inexplicable, if we suppose that a foreign body, emanating from a source of light, (for instance, the sun,) transmeates them; for this supposition would account for their ..."
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