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The slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium
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percolation
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Wikipedia
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In physics , chemistry and materials science , percolation (from Latin percōlāre , "to filter" or "trickle through") refers to the movement and filtering of fluids through porous materials.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin percolationem (nominative percolatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of percolare "to strain through, filter," from per- "through" (see per ) + colare "to strain," from colum "a strainer" (see colander ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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" [syn: infiltration ] the act of making coffee in a percolator the filtration of a liquid for extraction ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the seepage or filtration of a liquid through a porous substance
Usage examples of percolation.
Then later Paul Bunyan, the distant descendant of these panspermic Archaea, came back to Mars to find it cold and ostensibly empty, though some of the old ones still persisted, golluming around in various submartian volcanic percolations.
The custard apples, check dams, contour bunds, and percolation tanks are all elements in reversing that process.
Naidu explained how he had supervised the construction of contour bunds and check dams, which channeled water from the seasonal monsoon rains into a football-field-sized percolation tank: a ditchlike building foundation that took a year to fill up.
The lander had drilled down and secured a soil sample from under the sands at the mouth of Shalbatana Vallis, where thermal sensors had detected heat from a volcanic vent, which meant the permafrost ice in that region had liquid percolations in it.
It couldn’t be clearer that Eleanor wasn’t at all pleased with the percolations of the director’s genius.
They had been going over the energy readouts and mysterious percolations of the engines for nearly half an hour, and Soleta had agreed to give the matter a good deal more study, particularly searching for potential analogs to other such occurrences in assorted vessels.
The King's malicious mind may have started to percolate, and the results of such percolations were inevitably foul.