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Definitions: Percolation |
PercolationNoun1. The slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium; "the percolation of rainwater through the soil". 2. The act of making coffee in a percolator. 3. The filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "percolation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Percolation \Per`co*la"tion\, noun. [Latin expression percolatio.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Environment | 1. The movement of water downward and radially through subsurface soil layers, usually continuing downward to ground water. Can also involve upward movement of water. 2. Slow seepage of water through a filter. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Penetration of liquid into porous or cracked material; e. g. the penetration of water into soil or rock; cf. percolation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Slow movement(ofwater)through layer of porous material; cf. infiltration, leachate. Source: European Union. (references) |
Hydrologic | (1) The movement of water through the openings in rock or soil. (2) the entrance of a portion of the streamflow into the channel materials to contribute to ground water replenishment. (references) |
| The movement of water, under hydrostatic pressure, through the interstices of a rock or soil, except the movement through large openings such as caves. (references) | |
Mining | A. In the leaching treatment of minerals, a process whereby a solvent flows gently upward or downward through a bed of ore-bearing material sufficiently coarse textured to permit this flow. See also:sand leaching b. Slow laminar movement of water through small openings within a porous material. Also used as a syn. of infiltration. Flow in large openings suchas caves is not included. CF:infiltration. (references) |
Weather | The movement of water downward and radially through the subsurface soil layers, usually continuing downward to the groundwater. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Percolation."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Egress | Noun: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush; (water in motion); outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion, drain; dribbling; Verb: defluxion; drainage; outcome, output; discharge; (excretion). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Percolation |
| English words defined with "percolation": Cribbing ♦ Leachy ♦ percolate ♦ Seed bag. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "percolation": artesian leakage ♦ Bligh's creep theory ♦ Closed Basin ♦ Deep Percolation Loss, downward percolation ♦ heap leaching, hydrologic cycle, hydrological cycle ♦ incidental recharging ♦ LEACHER, line of creep, lined well ♦ masonry well ♦ Nondischarging Treatment Plant ♦ path of percolation, Percolation Deep, percolation leaching, Percolation Path, Percolation Rate, percolation test, percolation water ♦ sand leaching ♦ unavoidable farm losses, unlined well ♦ water cycle. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Soil percolation testing on an Indian reservation ...Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Percolation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Percolation" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
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Expression using "percolation": percolation water. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
percolation test | 24 |
percolation | 22 |
algorithm back percolation | 13 |
percolation theory | 6 |
back percolation | 4 |
soil percolation | 4 |
testing percolation | 3 |
percolation rate | 3 |
percolation soil test | 2 |
percolation soil testing | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "percolation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | filtrim (filtering, filtration, infiltration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | النفاذ إلى, التقطير (distillation), الترشيح. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | филтриране (filtering, filtration), проникване (influx, insinuation, penetration, pervasion), прецеждане, перколация. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 滲濾 , 渗透 (Penetration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | perkulation (infiltration, seepage), perkolation (seepage, seeping), nedsivning (seepage, seeping), infiltrering (infiltration, seepage), infiltration (air infiltration, infiltration, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, seepage, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | percolatie (seepage, seeping), sijpelwater (seep water, seepage, seepage water), lekwater (seep water, seepage, seepage water), inzijging (seepage, seeping), instroming (infiltration, inflow, influx, seepage), infiltratie (infiltration, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, seepage, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration), doorzijging (seepage, seeping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suoto (seepage, seeping), suodattuminen (seepage, seeping), imeytyminen (a general term covering both absorption and adsorption, absorption, infiltration, seepage, sorption, wicking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | percolation, pénétration (fusion penetration, penetration, penetration into the root, permeation, perpetration, pervasiveness), infiltration (permeation), filtration, eau filtrante, eau de percolation, cheminement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Filtration (filtration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διήθηση (filter, filtering, filtration, infiltration, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, seep water, seepage, seepage water, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פכפוך (bubbling, dripping, flow, gush, trickle), חלחול (infiltration, penetration, permeability, seepage, trembling), ס ון (filtering, filtration, sieving, sifting, straining, winnowing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | átszivárgás (filtration, infiltration, osmose, osmosis, permeation, seepage, sweat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | percolazione (ground water flow, infiltration, seepage), percolamento (seepage, seeping), scorrimento (creep, creep deformation, creeping, float, float time, flow, ground water flow, plastic deformation, plastic flow, pushing, runoff, seepage, shift, slack, sliding, slip, slipping), infiltrazione (cantilever, infiltration, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, seepage, seeping, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration), filtrazione (filtering, filtration, leak through the dike, leak through the dyke, leak through the embankment, piping, scrubbing, seepage, seeping), acqua di percolazione (seep water, seepage, seepage water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 滲出 (effusion, extraction, exudation), 濾過 (filtering, filtration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"しゅつ (advance, effusion, extraction, exudation, infiltration, permeation, step forward), ろか (filtering, filtration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 여과 (Filtrating, filtration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ercolationpay percolação (ground water flow, seepage, seeping). (various references) filtrare (filtration). (various references) фильтрование (filtering, filtration, straining). (various references) filtriranje (filtering). (various references) filtración (filtering, filtration, leak, leakage, seep water, seepage, seepage water), infiltración (infiltration, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, seepage, seeping, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration). (various references) perkolering, perkolation (seep water, seepage, seepage water, seeping), sipprande, silande, infiltration (air infiltration, infiltration, land application, penetration, seep water, seepage, seepage water, seeping, wastewater land application), genomsipprande vatten (seep water, seepage, seepage water), filtrering (filtering, filtration). (various references) süzme (filtering, filtration, infiltration, straining), süzülme (drainage, gliding, infiltration, volplane), sızma (efflux, infiltration, leak, leakage, ooze, oozing, outflow, permeation). (various references) просочування (dripping, imbibition, leakage, ooze, saturation, seepage), проціджування. (various references) sự thấm qua (permeation, seepage), sự lọc qua, sự chiết ngâm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "percolation": percolations. (additional references) | |
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"Percolation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: presedation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "percolation" (pronounced 'Per`co*la"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: pratincole, relocation. | |
-2 letters: coprolite, necropoli, operation, porcelain, precoital, prolactin. | |
-3 letters: acrolein, anoretic, antipole, apocrine, atropine, caponier, capriole, cilantro, clarinet, colinear, colorant, conepatl, contrail, coparent, copatron, coronate, creation, ecotonal, entropic, erotical, inceptor, interlap, leprotic, leptonic, location, loricate, operatic, optional, oriental, particle, pecorino, pectoral, pelorian, petiolar, petrolic, picaroon, platonic, plectron, pliotron, poetical, portance, prelatic, procaine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: organoleptic, percolations, projectional. | |
+2 letters: prevocational, recompilation. | |
+3 letters: contemporarily, recompilations. | |
+4 letters: introspectional, neuropathologic, nonmetaphorical, overapplication, overspeculation. | |
+5 letters: copolymerization, countercomplaint, operationalistic, organoleptically, overapplications, overcomplicating, overspeculations, pretechnological, pronounceability, stereophonically. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01100011 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r c o l a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0063 006F 006C 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5071846981786786758180 |
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