percolation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: percolation	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for percolation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
percolation n the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium; "the percolation of rainwater through the soil"; "the infiltration of seawater through the lava" Synonym(s): percolation, infiltration the act of making coffee in a percolator the filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.