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effusion

The English word “effusion” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

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

Etymology

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

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