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DISTILLMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors
Synonyms:
distillation; distillment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("distillment" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Derivation:
distill (undergo the process of distillation)
distill (remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation)
