percolation
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"Ramanujan's motivation might have been very mathematical, but without his knowledge, he was also studying black holes, turbulence, percolation, all sorts of things."
From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025
And this best cup of coffee occurs at what is known as the directed percolation transition.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024
If "percolation" makes you think of your morning coffee, it provides a useful example here.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024
Somewhere in between is a critical value, called the percolation threshold, at which the fluid begins to flow all the way across the network.
From Scientific American • Sep. 25, 2023
The bass-reliefs and frescoes of incipient Italian art, the pavement of the Sienese Cathedral, the Palazzo della Ragione at Padua, bear traces of the percolation through all social strata of this literature.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
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