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Filtration

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

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Action 76% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Infiltration 76% connected

The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.

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Percolation 76% connected

The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered dr…

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Filter 74% connected

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matte…

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Filter 74% connected

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matte…

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Percolate 74% connected

To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

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Percolate 74% connected

To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

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Accretion noun · 78% connection

Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

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Aggregate noun · 78% connection

A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

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Ambergris noun · 78% connection

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secreti…

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Attraction noun · 78% connection

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate part…

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Boom noun · 78% connection

A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating aw…

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Bose-Einstein statistics noun · 78% connection

(physics) statistical law obeyed by a system of particles whose wave function is not changed when two particles are interchanged (the…

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Buoyancy noun · 78% connection

The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a fl…

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Clay verb · 78% connection

To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

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Colation noun · 78% connection

The act or process of straining or filtering.

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Concrescence noun · 78% connection

Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles.

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Corpuscular radiation noun · 78% connection

a stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or…

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Eating away noun · 78% connection

(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively

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Eroding noun · 78% connection

(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively

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Erosion noun · 78% connection

(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively

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Exile noun · 78% connection

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separa…

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Fermi-Dirac statistics noun · 78% connection

(physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion pr…

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Floating adjective · 78% connection

Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.

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Fluid adjective · 78% connection

Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pres…

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