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perfluent, a.|pəˈfluːənt|
[ad. L. perfluent-em, pr. pple. of perflu-ĕre to flow through (in 16th c. F. perfluer), f. per- 1 + flu-ĕre to flow.]
Flowing through; having the quality of flowing through.
perfluent battery, a kind of galvanic battery operated by a liquid flowing through.
1673Grew Veget. Roots ii. §59 The Water being more perfluent than the rest, will..strain, with a lighter Tincture of them. 1742Lond. & Country Brew. i. (ed. 4) 16 Chalk..administers nothing unwholesome to the perfluent Waters. 1809Coleridge in Sir H. Davy's Rem. (1858) 111 Its inclosed stream or perfluent water-force. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Perfluent Battery, one in which the exciting liquid flows through the cells or cell to keep it constant. |