distillation
- Noun:
- A purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling: "Distillation" refers to the purified liquid that results from the process of boiling a liquid and then cooling and collecting the vapor.
- The process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors: "Distillation" is the method or act of separating components of a liquid mixture based on differences in their volatilities through boiling and condensation.
Noun (Product):
- The clear liquid in the flask is a pure distillation of the original herbal mixture.
- Whiskey is a distillation made from fermented grain mash.
Noun (Process):
- The laboratory uses distillation to obtain pure water from saltwater.
- The distillation of crude oil produces various fuels like gasoline and diesel.
"fractional distillation": A process where a mixture is separated into its component parts, or fractions, based on different boiling points.
- Fractional distillation is essential in petroleum refining.
"vacuum distillation": Distillation performed under reduced pressure, which lowers the boiling points of the substances.
- Heat-sensitive compounds are often purified using vacuum distillation.
Figurative Use: The extraction of the most essential elements of something; a concentrated essence.
- His latest book is a distillation of twenty years of research.
- The speech was a brilliant distillation of the movement's core philosophy.
Distill (verb): To subject a liquid to the process of distillation; to extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of something.
- They distill seawater to make it drinkable.
- Can you distill the main arguments from this complex report?
Distillate (noun): A liquid product condensed from vapor during distillation.
- The lightest distillate from crude oil is used to make jet fuel.
Distiller (noun): A person or company that distills liquids, especially alcoholic spirits.
- The distiller checked the aging barrels of whiskey.
- Purification: The act of making something pure.
- Refinement: The process of removing impurities or unwanted elements.
- Extraction: The action of taking out something, especially using effort or a specific process.
- Essence: The intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character (figurative synonym).
To undergo distillation: To be processed by distillation.
- The mixture must undergo distillation to separate the components.
The art of distillation: Referring to the skill and technique involved in distilling, often used for spirits.
- He studied the ancient art of distillation.
- The distilled wisdom of...: The pure, concentrated knowledge gathered from a source.
- The article offers the distilled wisdom of several leading economists.
- a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling
- the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors