distillation
distillation Lexical Profile
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• noun
The chemical process of purifying a liquid or separating its components by heating it until it vaporizes and then cooling the vapor so that it condenses back into liquid form.
"Desalination plants often rely on large-scale distillation to convert seawater into fresh drinking water."
The extraction of the essential meaning, most important aspects, or concentrated essence of something, or the resulting summary itself.
"Her latest book is a brilliant distillation of decades of research into human cognition."
A purified liquid or concentrated substance produced through the process of distilling.
"The apothecary stored the herbal distillation in dark amber glass bottles to protect it from sunlight."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French distillation or directly from Late Latin distillatio, derived from the Latin verb destillare ('to trickle down in drops'), formed from de- ('down') and stillare ('to drip'), from stilla ('a drop').