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Percolation

//pɝkəˈleɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    the filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification wordnet
  3. 3
    the act of making coffee in a percolator wordnet
  4. 4
    the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium wordnet

Etymology

From Latin percōlātiō.

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