distillation

distillation

See also: distillâtion

English

Etymology

From Middle English distillacioun, from Anglo-Norman distillacioun, from Latin distīllātiōnem, accusative of distīllātiō.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪstɪˈleɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

distillation (countable and uncountable, plural distillations)

1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
2. That which falls in drops.
3. (chemistry, chemical engineering) The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by evaporation and condensation.
   1. Purification through repeated or continuous distilling; rectification.
   2. (petroleum) Separation into specific hydrocarbon groups; fractionation.
4. The substance extracted by distilling.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene v], line 104:

     to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking / clothes that fretted in their own grease.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     Then, were not summer's distillation left,
     A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass […]

Derived terms

• destructive distillation
• distillation chaser
• dry distillation
• fractional distillation
• freeze distillation
• global distillation
• membrane distillation
• salt-effect distillation
• steam distillation
• vacuum distillation

 

Translations

falling in drips (act)

Bulgarian: изкапване (izkapvane) Finnish: pisarointi (fi) Greek: απόσταξη (el) f (apóstaxi) (apóstaxi) Portuguese: gotejamento m Romanian: distilare (ro) f

falling in drops (thing)

Finnish: pisarointi (fi)

separation of a substance

Arabic: تَقْطِير‎ m (taqṭīr) Bulgarian: дестилация (bg) f (destilacija) Catalan: destil·lació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 蒸餾／蒸馏 (zh) (zhēngliù) Czech: destilace (cs) f Finnish: tislaus (fi) French: distillation (fr) f German: Destillation (de) f Greek: απόσταξη (el) f (apóstaxi) (apóstaxi) Japanese: 蒸留 (ja) (じょうりゅう, jōryū) Malay: penyulingan (ms) Maori: iheunga Norman: distillâtion f Norwegian: destillasjon (no) m Persian: تقطیر‎ (fa) (taqtir) Polish: destylacja (pl) f Portuguese: destilação (pt) f Russian: дистилля́ция (ru) f (distilljácija), перего́нка (ru) f (peregónka) Spanish: destilación (es) f Swedish: destillering c, destillation (sv) c Tagalog: singawkintay Urdu: تقطیر‎ f (taqtīr) Volapük: steil (vo), steilam

substance once extracted

Bulgarian: дестилат (bg) m (destilat) Dutch: Destillaat Finnish: tisle (fi), tislaustuote German: Destillat (de) n Greek: απόσταγμα (el) n (apóstagma) (apóstagma) Portuguese: destilado m Spanish: destilado (es) m Volapük: steilot (vo), steilat

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French

Noun

distillation f (plural distillations)

1. distillation

Further reading

• “distillation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.