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effusion

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  1. A liquid outpouring.
  2. Process of gases passing through a hole or holes considerably smaller than the mean free path of the gas molecules.
  3. (by extension) An outpouring of speech or emotion.
  4. The seeping of fluid into a body cavity; the fluid itself.

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