Percolation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Percolation \Per`co*la"tion\, 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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  percolation
       n 1: the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium;
            "the percolation of rainwater through the soil"; "the
            infiltration of seawater through the lava" [syn: {infiltration}]
       2: the act of making coffee in a percolator
       3: the filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  133 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, winnowing