effusion

Significado (Inglês)

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

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infusion
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Etimologia (Inglês)

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

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