Not if you look at the sample sentence provided at that link: Democrats faired marginally better in the study, ringing in at 31 percent.. I believe that using that sentence is an error on dictionary.com's part.
Porosity and Permeability Lab. The terms porosity and permeability are related. ï· porosity â the amount of empty space in a rock or other earth substance; this empty. space is known as pore space. Porosity is how much water a substance can hold. Porosity is usually stated as a percentage of the materialâs total volume. ï· permeability â is how well water flows through rock or other earth substance.
Porosity is the measure of the volume of void space (pore space), their size, and number, and permeability is the measure of how easily the water moves from pore space to pore space through a body such as rock or soil or how well they are interconnected.orosity is the measure of the volume of void space (pore space), their size, and number, and permeability is the measure of how easily the water moves from pore space to pore space through a body such as rock or soil or how well they are interconnected.