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English
Etymology
permeate + -or
Noun
permeator (plural permeators)
- A device, containing a semipermeable membrane, used to desalinate water by reverse osmosis
Latin
Verb
permeātor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of permeō
References
- “permeator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- permeator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.