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patency
[ peyt-n-see, pat- ]
noun
- the state of being patent.
- Medicine/Medical. the condition of not being blocked or obstructed.
- Phonetics. openness of articulation, found more or less in all phonemes except stops.
patency
/ ˈpeɪtənsɪ /
noun
- the condition of being obvious
- the state of a bodily passage, duct, etc, of being open or unobstructed
- phonetics the degree to which the vocal tract remains unobstructed in the articulation of a speech sound See also closure
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Example Sentences
It is clear that they thus secured patency of the air-passages after these had become occluded.
From Project Gutenberg
Probably we dislike the ape because of the very patency of his human affinities.
From Project Gutenberg
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