infiltration

infiltration

Fait d’entrer secrètement dans un lieu ou un groupe, souvent pour obtenir des renseignements ou nuire.

En anglais simple : Secretly entering a place or group, often to collect information or cause harm.

• The guards watched for enemy infiltration.
• Police infiltration of the gang took months.
• Better security could prevent infiltration by foreign agents.

Comment l'utiliser : infiltration of something (The infiltration of the group went unnoticed.); infiltration by someone (The files revealed infiltration by undercover officers.)

Synonymes : penetration

Expressions courantes : enemy infiltration, infiltration of something, prevent infiltration

infiltration

Passage d’un liquide dans le sol, un tissu ou une autre matière par de petits espaces.

En anglais simple : The process of liquid moving into soil, tissue, or another material through small spaces.

• Rain increased water infiltration into the soil.
• Clay soils often have a low infiltration rate.
• The test measured fluid infiltration into the tissue.

Comment l'utiliser : infiltration into something (Cracks allowed water infiltration into the walls.)

Synonymes : seepage

Expressions courantes : water infiltration, infiltration rate, infiltration into something