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Infiltration

Infiltration Meaning & Definition
Infiltration Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Infiltration?

[n] a process in which individuals (or small groups) penetrate an area (especially the military penetration of enemy positions without detection)
[n] the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium; "the percolation of rainwater through the soil"; "the infiltration of seawater through the lava"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Infiltration: percolation

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | filtration | incursion | penetration

Infiltration In Webster's Dictionary

\In`fil*tra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. infiltration.] 1. The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body. 2. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. --Addison. Calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities. --Kirwan. {Fatty infiltration}. (Med.) See under {Fatty}. {Infiltration gallery}, a filter gallery.

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