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.
In  earth sciences permeability is a measure of how a porous material  such as a rock allows fluids to pass through it.      absorbency   absorbency.asalt is mainly comprised of calcic plagioclase feldspar and  pyroxene. Olivine can also occur in large amounts in basalt and a  number of other minerals may appear in mino â¦ r amounts.