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Webster 1913 Edition


Percolator

Per′co-laˊtor

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Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, filters.
“[Tissues] act as percolators.”
Henfrey.

Definition 2024


percolator

percolator

English

Noun

percolator (plural percolators)

  1. A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds
  2. A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.

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Latin

Verb

percōlātor

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of percōlō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of percōlō