distillation

See also: distillâtion

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman distillacioun, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin distillātiō, distillātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪstɪˈleɪʃən/
• 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 heating and condensing.
   1. Purification through repeated or continuous distilling; rectification.
   2. (petroleum) Separation into specific hydrocarbon groups; fractionation.
4. The substance extracted by distilling.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, III. v. 104:

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

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 5:

     Then, were not summer's distillation left,

     A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass ...

Translations

falling in drips (act)

• Bulgarian: изкапване (izkapvane)
• Finnish: pisarointi (fi)
• Greek: απόσταξη (el) f (apóstaxi) (apóstaxi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: gotejamento m
• Romanian: distilare (ro) f

falling in drops (thing)

• Finnish: pisarointi (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

separation of a substance

• Bulgarian: дестилация (bg) f (destilacija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒸餾／蒸馏 (zh) (zhēngliú), 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
• Maori: iheunga
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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
• Volapük: steil (vo), steilam

substance once extracted

• Bulgarian: дестилат (bg) m (destilat)
• Dutch: Destillaat
• Finnish: tisle (fi)
• German: Destillat (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: απόσταγμα (el) n (apóstagma) (apóstagma)
• Portuguese: destilado m
• Spanish: destilado (es) m
• Volapük: steilot (vo), steilat