Percolation

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  • n. the seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of percolating; the act of straining or filtering; filtration; the act of passing through small interstices, as liquor through felt or a porous stone.
  • n. In pharmacy, the process of extracting the soluble parts of powdered substances by passing through them successive quantities of a solvent which yields a clear extract free from insoluble matters: used in the sense of displacement.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of making coffee in a percolator
  • n. the filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification
  • n. the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    preparation    cookery    cooking    filtration   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    filtration    exudation   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    transudation    four-stage    benzole    betweenness    monopole   
     
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