Distillation

Noun

 * 1) The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
 * 2) That which falls in drops.
 * 3)  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.
 * 4) The substance extracted by distilling.

Adjectives
elaborate; powerful. strong;  renewed;   delicate.

Thesaurus
aeration, aerification, artifact, atomization, blazing, blistering, bolting, brainchild, branding, burning, calcination, carbonization, cauterization, cautery, child, cineration, clarification, coinage, colature, combustion, composition, concentrate, concentration, concoction, concremation, condensation, core, cracking, creation, creature, cremation, crowning achievement, cupellation, decoction, deflagration, destructive distillation, disentanglement, disinvolvement, distillate, distilling, dribble, drip, dripping, drippings, drop, edulcoration, effect, elixir, elution, elutriation, end product, essence, essentialization, etherealization, etherification, evaporation, exhalation, expression, extract, extraction, fabric, filtering, filtration, flaming, fluidization, fractionation, fruit, fumigation, gasification, gist, handiwork, heart, incineration, infusion, invention, issue, kernel, leaching, leak, leakage, leaking, lixiviation, manufacture, marrow, masterpiece, masterwork, material, matter, meat, medium, mintage, narrowing, new mintage, nub, offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, oxidation, oxidization, parching, percolation, pith, pressing, product, production, purification, pyrolysis, quintessence, refinement, refining, rendering, rendition, result, riddling, sap, scorching, scorification, screening, searing, seepage, seeping, self-immolation, separation, sieving, sifting, simplification, singeing, smelting, smoking, soaking, soul, spirit, spiritualization, spurtle, squeezing, steaming, steeping, straining, streamlining, stripping, stripping down, stuff, sublimation, substance, sum and substance, suttee, sweating, the stake, thermogenesis, trickle, tricklet, uncluttering, unscrambling, unsnarling, vaporization, vesication, volatilization, winnowing, work

Translations

 * Bulgarian: изкапване


 * Greek: απόσταξη (apóstaxi)


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蒸餾, 蒸馏
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: tislaus
 * French: distillation


 * German:
 * Greek: απόσταξη (apóstaxi)
 * Japanese: 蒸留 (じょうりゅう, jōryū)
 * Norwegian: destillasjon
 * Polish:
 * Russian: дистилляция, перегонка
 * Swedish: destillering, destillation


 * Bulgarian: дестилат
 * Dutch: Destillaat
 * Finnish:


 * German: Destillat
 * Greek: απόσταγμα (apóstagma)