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impermeable

/im-pur-mee-uh-buhl/US // ɪmˈpɜr mi ə bəl //UK // (ɪmˈpɜːmɪəbəl) //

不透水,不透水的,不渗透,不渗透的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not permeable; impassable.
    • : Chemistry, Geology. not permitting the passage of a fluid through the pores, interstices, etc.

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Examples

  • It’s making them as impermeable as possible to future abuse.

  • One that would, as we wrote earlier, be a cost per square foot of impermeable land that you own.

  • Stamped from steel, these things are robust and impermeable.

  • We have an impermeable two-party system in which one party is sliding away from democratic elections, the core value proposition of the American system.

  • The daily hardships demand an impermeable skin for survival.

  • Another impermeable Republican in Washington looks to be Chuck Hagel.

  • "I don't know that I would call him impermeable, but he just about is," Ryggs says.

  • Polish typically interferes with the procedure by creating an impermeable barrier on the nail bed.

  • It was consensus, the impermeable devotion to an article of faith.

  • The streams disappear in the detritus cone, and the water runs below over impermeable layers of glacial clay.

  • These pieces are fitted closely together, length under length, and form an impermeable wall along the side of the pit.

  • Oiled it is kappa, impermeable and suitable for covering packages and for making waterproof garments.

  • Modern anatomists know that the heart is divided into two approximately equal parts by an impermeable septum of tough fibres.

  • Plaster work is rendered impermeable by mixing artificial or natural asphaltum with it.