percolation

percolation

English

Etymology

From Latin percōlātiō.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /pɝkəˈleɪʃən/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɜːkəˈleɪʃən/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: per‧co‧la‧tion

Noun

percolation (countable and uncountable, plural percolations)

  1. The seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance.
    • 2015, Tathagata Paul, Subhamoy Ghatak, Arindam Ghosh, “Percolative switching in transition metal dichalcogenide field-effect transistors at room temperature”, in arXiv[1]:
      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.

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French

Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin percōlātiōnem.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /pɛʁ.kɔ.la.sjɔ̃/
    • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)

    Noun

    percolation f (plural percolations)

    1. percolation

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