infiltration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=fil=tra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

infiltration, n. [Cf. F. infiltration.].

•  The act or process of infiltrating, as of water into a porous substance, of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body, or of persons into a hostile organization.  [1913 Webster]
•  The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]

  "Calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities."  [1913 Webster]

Fatty infiltration. (Med.) See under Fatty. -- Infiltration gallery, a filter gallery.

THESAURUS

infiltration

absorbency, absorbent, absorption, access, admission, adsorbent, adsorption, aerial tactics, aggravated assault, aggression, airborne tactics, amphibious attack, applied tactics, armed assault, armored tactics, assailing, assailment, assault, assimilation, attack, banzai attack, barrier tactics, blitz, blitzkrieg, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, breakthrough, brewing, cavalry tactics, charge, chemisorption, chemosorption, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crippling attack, dead set at, decoction, defensive strategy, descent on, digestion, diversion, diversionary attack, drench, drenching, drive, ducking, dunking, encirclement, encroachment, endosmosis, engrossment, entrance, entree, entrenchment, entry, exosmosis, feint, fire tactics, flank attack, frontal attack, gas attack, head-on attack, imbruement, imbuement, impingement, import, importation, importing, imposition, impregnation, income, incoming, incursion, infantry tactics, influx, infringement, infusion, ingoing, ingress, ingression, injection, input, inroad, insertion, insinuation, instillation, instillment, intake, interference, interjection, interloping, interpenetration, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervention, introduction, introgression, intrusion, invasion, investment, irruption, leaching, leakage, lightning attack, lightning war, lixiviation, maceration, marination, mass attack, megadeath, mob tactics, mobile tactics, mugging, obtrusion, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, osmosis, overkill, panzer warfare, penetration, percolation, permeation, pervasion, pincers movement, pulping, push, reception, run against, run at, rush, sally, saturation, seepage, seething, shock tactics, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, sorption, sortie, souse, sousing, sponge, sponging, steeping, strategy, strike, suffusion, tactics, trespass, trespassing, unlawful entry, unprovoked assault

ROGET THESAURUS

infiltration

Mixture

N mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion, commixion, intermixture, alloyage, matrimony, junction, combination, miscegenation, impregnation, infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion, infiltration, seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding, interpolation, adulteration, sophistication, tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon, alloy, amalgam, brass, chowchow, pewter, magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts, jumble, salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn, mosaic, half-blood, half-caste, mulatto, terceron, quarteron, quinteron, quadroon, octoroon, griffo, zambo, cafuzo, Eurasian, fustee, fustie, griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule, catalo, cross, hybrid, mongrel, mixed, implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous, motley, miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate, miscible, among, amongst, amid, amidst, with, in the midst of, in the crowd.

Interposition

N interposition, interjacence, intercurrence, intervenience, interlocation, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation, interpenetration, permeation, infiltration, intervention, interference, intrusion, obtrusion, insinuation, insertion, dovetailing, embolism, intermediary, intermedium, go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper, parenthesis, episode, flyleaf, partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff, dissepiment, party wall, panel, room divider, halfway house, interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening, intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial, embolismal, parenthetical, episodic, mediterranean, intrusive, embosomed, merged, between, betwixt, twixt, among, amongst, amid, amidst, mid, midst, in the thick of, betwixt and between, sandwich-wise, parenthetically, obiter dictum.

Ingress

N ingress, entrance, entry, introgression, influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption, ingression, penetration, interpenetration, illapse, import, infiltration, immigration, admission, insinuation, insertion, inlet, way in, mouth, door, barway, path, conduit, immigrant, incoming.

Passage

N passage, transmission, permeation, penetration, interpenetration, transudation, infiltration, endosmose exosmose, endosmosis, intercurrence, ingress, egress, path, conduit, opening, journey, voyage, passing, intercurrent, endosmosmic, endosmotic, en passant.

Water

N water, serum, serosity, lymph, rheum, diluent, agua, aqua, pani, dilution, maceration, lotion, washing, immersion, humectation, infiltration, spargefaction, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation, bath, deluge, high water, flood tide, watery, aqueous, aquatic, hydrous, lymphatic, balneal, diluent, drenching, diluted, weak, wet, the waters are out.