Hypertext Webster Gateway: "percolation"
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
percolation
n 1: the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium;
"the percolation of rainwater through the soil"
2: the act of making coffee in a percolator
3: the filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.