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percolation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun percolation has 3 senses
- percolation(n = noun.process) infiltration - the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium; "the percolation of rainwater through the soil"; "the infiltration of seawater through the lava" is a kind of filtration
- percolation(n = noun.act) Array - the act of making coffee in a percolator; Array is a kind of cookery, cooking, preparation
- percolation(n = noun.act) Array - the filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification; Array is a kind of filtration
Derived forms verb percolate5, verb percolate4, verb percolate3, verb percolate1
Derived form verb percolate3
Derived forms verb percolate4, verb percolate3
CIDE DICTIONARY
percolation, n. [L. percolatio.].
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. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
percolation
absorbency, absorbent, absorption, access, admission, adsorbent, adsorption, assimilation, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, bolting, brewing, chemisorption, chemosorption, clarification, colature, colliquation, condensation, decoagulation, deliquescence, deliquium, destructive distillation, digestion, dissolution, dissolving, distillation, drench, drenching, dribble, drip, dripping, drop, ducking, dunking, edulcoration, effusion, elution, elutriation, endosmosis, engrossment, entrance, entree, entry, essentialization, excretion, exfiltration, exosmosis, extraction, extravasation, exudation, filtering, filtration, fluidification, fluidization, fusing, fusion, imbruement, imbuement, import, importation, importing, impregnation, income, incoming, infiltration, infusion, ingoing, ingress, ingression, injection, input, insertion, insinuation, intake, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, leaching, leakage, liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, lixiviation, maceration, melting, ooze, oozing, osmosis, penetration, percolating, permeation, pulping, purification, reception, refinement, riddling, running, saturation, screening, seep, seepage, seeping, seething, separation, sieving, sifting, soak, soakage, soaking, solubilization, solution, sopping, sorption, souse, sousing, spiritualization, sponge, sponging, spurtle, steeping, straining, sublimation, sweating, thawing, transudation, trickle, tricklet, unclotting, weep, weeping, winnowingROGET THESAURUS
percolation
Egress
N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.
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