Pēr'me-a-ble, a.

a. [Fr. perméable, Sp. permeable, It. permeabile, Lat. permeabilis. See PERMEATE.] Admitting of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; penetrable; — used especially of the passage of fluids. “Each of which has become permeable to the same beams of light.” I. Taylor.