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effusion🔊

A liquid outpouring.

(chemistry, physics) Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.

(figurative, by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.

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I could not, however, on more formal occasions keep from expressing myself in the impassioned spirit of my poetic effusions [...]

(medicine) The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.

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