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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Percolation \Per'co*la"tion\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
percolation
noun
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
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