'Infiltration' definitions:
Definition of 'infiltration'
(from WordNet)
noun
A process in which individuals (or small groups) penetrate an area (especially the military penetration of enemy positions without detection)
noun
The slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium; "the percolation of rainwater through the soil"; "the infiltration of seawater through the lava" [syn: percolation, infiltration]
Definition of 'Infiltration'
From: GCIDE
- Infiltration \In`fil*tra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. infiltration.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act or process of infiltrating, as of water into a porous substance, of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body, or of persons into a hostile organization. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 2. The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities. --Kirwan. [1913 Webster]
- Fatty infiltration. (Med.) See under Fatty.
- Infiltration gallery, a filter gallery. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'infiltration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absorbency,
- absorbent,
- absorption,
- access,
- admission,
- adsorbent,
- adsorption,
- aerial tactics,
- aggravated assault,
- aggression,
- airborne tactics,
- amphibious attack,
- applied tactics,
- armed assault,
- armored tactics,
- assailing,
- assailment,
- assault,
- assimilation,
- attack,
- banzai attack,
- barrier tactics,
- blitz,
- blitzkrieg,
- blotter,
- blotting,
- blotting paper,
- breakthrough,
- brewing,
- cavalry tactics,
- charge,
- chemisorption,
- chemosorption,
- counterattack,
- counteroffensive,
- coup de main,
- crippling attack,
- dead set at,
- decoction,
- defensive strategy,
- descent on,
- digestion,
- diversion,
- diversionary attack,
- drench,
- drenching,
- drive,
- ducking,
- dunking,
- encirclement,
- encroachment,
- endosmosis,
- engrossment,
- entrance,
- entree,
- entrenchment,
- entry,
- exosmosis,
- feint,
- fire tactics,
- flank attack,
- frontal attack,
- gas attack,
- head-on attack,
- imbruement,
- imbuement,
- impingement,
- import,
- importation,
- importing,
- imposition,
- impregnation,
- income,
- incoming,
- incursion,
- infantry tactics,
- influx,
- infringement,
- infusion,
- ingoing,
- ingress,
- ingression,
- injection,
- input,
- inroad,
- insertion,
- insinuation,
- instillation,
- instillment,
- intake,
- interference,
- interjection,
- interloping,
- interpenetration,
- interposition,
- interposure,
- interruption,
- intervention,
- introduction,
- introgression,
- intrusion,
- invasion,
- investment,
- irruption,
- leaching,
- leakage,
- lightning attack,
- lightning war,
- lixiviation,
- maceration,
- marination,
- mass attack,
- megadeath,
- mob tactics,
- mobile tactics,
- mugging,
- obtrusion,
- offense,
- offensive,
- onset,
- onslaught,
- osmosis,
- overkill,
- panzer warfare,
- penetration,
- percolation,
- permeation,
- pervasion,
- pincers movement,
- pulping,
- push,
- reception,
- run against,
- run at,
- rush,
- sally,
- saturation,
- seepage,
- seething,
- shock tactics,
- soak,
- soakage,
- soaking,
- sopping,
- sorption,
- sortie,
- souse,
- sousing,
- sponge,
- sponging,
- steeping,
- strategy,
- strike,
- suffusion,
- tactics,
- trespass,
- trespassing,
- unlawful entry,
- unprovoked assault