Definitions for percolation

percolation per·co·la·tion

Spelling: [pur-kuh-ley-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌpɜr kəˈleɪ ʃən/

Percolation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1620 anagrams from letters in percolation (aceilnooprt).

Definitions for percolation

noun

  1. the act or state of percolating or of being percolated.
  2. Pharmacology. the extraction of the soluble principles of a crude drug by the passage of a suitable liquid through it.
  3. Geology. the slow movement of water through the pores in soil or permeable rock.

Origin of percolation

First recorded in 1605-15, percolation is from the Latin word percōlātiōn- (stem of percōlātiō). See percolate, -ion

Examples for percolation

The method of percolation is now preferred by all who have made sufficient trial of it to apply it correctly.

If the percolation and evaporation have been properly performed the fluid extract will not be required to be filtered.

Castro would slide from view for weeks or months until the percolation of rumors roared to a fierce bubbling.

From the dried root of bistort or snake-weed (Polygonum Bistorta), by percolation with temperate distilled water.

This wadi, which is some 63 m. long, obtains water by percolation from the Nile.

Contamination of the soil, ground water, and air by percolation of sewage.

The river contained more water the higher we mounted, for below the water was lost by evaporation and percolation into the ground.

percolation is a slow process in the hard head of the worldly-wise.

No other means of agitation or percolation is so efficacious or economical.'

Of course, with such a pressure as this, there was likely to be percolation under the foundations and a washing-out of the soil.

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