DISTILLMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors

Synonyms:

distillation; distillment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("distillment" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Derivation:

distill (undergo the process of distillation)

distill (remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation)