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How to pronounce porousness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms porosity
Type of consistence, consistency, substance, body
Has types permeability, permeableness, sponginess
Derivation porous

Examples of porousness

porousness
Indeed, despite its repressiveness, there is a curious porousness and openness in China.
From the businessweek.com
Recent arrests have highlighted the northern boundary's porousness.
From the kansas.com
The plan has gotten a lot of skepticism since it launched in March because of its unusual porousness and complexity.
From the techcrunch.com
Something about the porousness of national borders?
From the washingtonpost.com
These massive limestone blocks, engineers say, are unique to the region in their combination of porousness and durability.
From the time.com
Just the same, the Tigers'hopes of shoring up that porousness hinge significantly on improvement in the last line of defense.
From the stltoday.com
There will be goals, with Arsenal's porousness at the back and potency up front, but I still think we'll have too much for them.
From the guardian.co.uk
This similar porousness can also develop if the mold is damp, not of the proper temperature, or if the metal is poured before it is hot enough.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Hand-rolled pasta, we learned from eating it, has a springiness and porousness impossible to achieve with a machine, which tends to make the dough smoother and more compressed.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • Porosity: the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids
  • Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0 and 100%. Strictly speaking, some tests measure the "accessible void," the total amount of void space accessible from the surface (cf. closed-cell foam)...