percolation

From Latin percōlātiō.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɝkəˈleɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɜːkəˈleɪʃən/

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• Hyphenation: per‧co‧la‧tion

percolation (countable and uncountable, plural percolations)

1. The seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance.
   • 2015, Tathagata Paul, Subhamoy Ghatak, Arindam Ghosh, “Percolative switching in transition metal dichalcogenide field-effect transistors at room temperature”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     With simultaneous measurement of channel conductivity and its slow time-dependent fluctuation (or noise) in ultra-thin WSe2 and MoS2 FETs on insulating SiO2 substrates, where noise arises from McWhorter-type carrier number fluctuations, we establish that the switching in conventional backgated TMDC FETs is a classical percolation transition in a medium of inhomogeneous carrier density distribution.

• percolate
• percolation theory

• Neotropical, neotropical

Borrowed from Latin percōlātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.kɔ.la.sjɔ̃/

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percolation f (plural percolations)

1. percolation

• “percolation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.