What is the meaning of porous?

adjective

  • Able to absorb fluids.
    • usage: "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"
  • Full of pores or vessels or holes.
  • Allowing passage in and out.
    • usage: "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"
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