{"id":13667,"date":"2026-11-06T03:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T03:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/?page_id=13667"},"modified":"2026-11-12T04:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T04:43:27","slug":"infiltration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/glossary\/infiltration\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Infiltration?"},"content":{"rendered":"  <div class=\"aiper-glossary\" lang=\"en-US\" data-result-one=\"{count} term\" data-result-many=\"{count} terms\" data-empty=\"No terms found. Try another name or clear the filters.\">\r\n     <header><p>Lawn &amp; Soil Care<\/p><h1>What Is Infiltration?<\/h1><p>Infiltration is the entry of water from the ground surface into the soil.<\/p><\/header>\r\n   <figure><picture><source media=\"(max-width:600px)\" width=\"560\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/plugins\/aiper-core\/glossary\/infiltration.svg?ver=0.5.11\"><img src=\"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/plugins\/aiper-core\/glossary\/infiltration.svg?ver=0.5.11\" alt=\"Concept diagram: Water arrives at surface; Water crosses into soil; Runoff stays on surface.\" width=\"560\" height=\"650\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"><\/picture><figcaption>Water arrives at surface; Water crosses into soil; Runoff stays on surface. Simplified conceptual illustration; not to scale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n   <section><h2>How to Understand It<\/h2><p>Infiltration rate describes how quickly that entry happens. It depends on soil texture, structure, compaction, and current moisture. Water moving downward inside the soil is a related process; surface runoff occurs when water flows across the ground instead.<\/p><\/section>   <section><h2>Related terms<\/h2><ul><li><a data-glossary-link=\"related-term\" href=\"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/glossary\/root-zone\/\">Root Zone<\/a><\/li><li><a data-glossary-link=\"related-term\" href=\"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/glossary\/soil-compaction\/\">Soil Compaction<\/a><\/li><li><a data-glossary-link=\"related-term\" href=\"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/glossary\/soil-texture\/\">Soil Texture<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/section>   <section><h2>Learn more<\/h2><ul><li><a data-glossary-link=\"guide\" href=\"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/watering-schedule\/\">When to Water Your Lawn: Morning vs. Evening, Frequency, and Depth<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/section>  <\/div>\r\n  <script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"DefinedTerm\",\"name\":\"Infiltration\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"description\":\"Infiltration is the entry of water from the ground surface into the soil.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aiper.com\\\/blogs\\\/glossary\\\/infiltration\\\/\",\"inDefinedTermSet\":\"https:\\\/\\\/aiper.com\\\/blogs\\\/glossary\\\/#terms\"}<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":13585,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"aiper_reading_time":1,"aiper_last_reviewed":"","aiper_reviewer":0,"aiper_related_ids":[],"aiper_layout":"tool","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13667","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":13667,"de":13758,"fr":13808,"es":13858},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13708,"href":"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13667\/revisions\/13708"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiper.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}