'Percolation' definitions:
Definition of 'percolation'
(from WordNet)
noun
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: percolation, infiltration]
noun
The act of making coffee in a percolator
noun
The filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification
Definition of 'Percolation'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'percolation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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