Understand 'porosity' is a technical term, used in science and engineering—less in everyday conversation.

Usage Context

'Porosity' refers to a physical characteristic of materials that may not be visible to the naked eye.

Physical Property

Sometimes 'porosity' is used metaphorically to talk about non-physical spaces, like a security system.

Metaphorical Use

'Porosity' can be measured; it's a quantitative property often used in scientific analysis.

Quantitative Term

Understanding porosity is key when studying how fluids move through materials, like in hydrogeology.

Relevance to Fluids

In some industries, like petroleum geology, 'porosity' is central to economic value.

Cultural Associations

 and they transform, to our active auxetics that respond to temperature and sunlight, to our more recent work on active textiles that respond to body temperature and change porosity, to our rapid liquid printing work where we print inflatable structures that morph based on air pressure