transmeate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“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 ..."
Etymology
From Latin transmeatus, past participle of transmeare (“to pass across”), from trans (“across, over”) + meare (“to go”).