permeableformal

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Physics: the state of matter
absorbency
acidic
allotropic
allotropy
compressible
crystalline
e-liquid
fluidity
gasses
melted
polyunsaturated
powdery
rarefy
reflective
rustily
rusty
scaly
self-healing
sloppily
sloppy

imperviousadjective (PERSON)

If someone is impervious to something,they are not influenced or affected by something: 不受影响的
impervious toHe is impervious to criticism and rational argument.他对批评和说理都无动于衷。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Self-control and moderation
anti-pleasure
ascetically
asceticism
be in command (of yourself)idiom
boundary
go easyidiom
go steady on somethingidiom
golden mean
grip
imperviously
puritanically
puritanism
restrained
restrainedly
restraint
steady
stint
temperance
undignified
unsensational

impervious | American Dictionary

impervious
adjective
us/ɪmˈpɜr·vi·əs/
not able to be influenced, hurt, or damaged:
He seems to be impervious to pain.
Granite is almost impervious to acid-rain damage.

Examples of impervious

impervious
The inflated aerofoil consisted of an impervious sleeve supported by thin steel wedges a t the leading and trailing edges.
To maintain his aura of restraint, he had to be impervious to the changeable rules of fashion associated with feminine flightiness.
Seen in that way, the utterances in (20) to (22) are not impervious to analysis.
Why then do girls, who appear resilient and relatively impervious to childhood mental disorders, later show so many internalizing problems?
At an impervious boundary, all the heat must be transported by conduction.
Since the container walls are impervious to solutes, the basic state is necessarily time dependent.
The most obvious explanation is that the child is impervious to corrective input in the majority of cases.
The fact that certain structures seem impervious to otherwise strong age effects begs for an explanation.
Unfortunately, his strategy makes his book nearly impervious to precise analysis.
Impervious to any hint of desecration or betrayal, this new, conscious modelhood suggests a good deal more than mere passive availability to vision.
Rather, its goal is to show that there are critical ' bedrock issues ' that are impervious to technical developments.
Why, however, have regional projects in past decades been impervious to issues of cultural identity, issues that loom so important in the present?
On the other hand, there appear to be child characteristics that are more impervious to general features of environmental support.
The aerofoils are formed by inflating a flexible impervious membrane which is anchored at both leading and trailing edges.
An instrument that is durable, lightweight, impervious to weather conditions, and portable is naturally the dream of every player.
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