macroporous
adjective
macroporous is an adjective meaning “Having macropores, i.e. pores of a relatively large size (e.g. greater than 50 nanometres)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-A-C-R-O-P-O-R-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does macroporous mean?
adjective
- 1
Having macropores, i.e. pores of a relatively large size (e.g. greater than 50 nanometres).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of macroporous
- more macroporous comparative
- most macroporous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is macroporous?
Macroporous appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does macroporous come from?
From macro- + porous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).