0 the process of making a liquid stronger or purer by heating it until it changes to a gas and then cooling it so that it changes back into a liquid, or a liquid made by this process:
1 the process of heating a liquid until it becomes a gas, then making it liquid again by cooling
No grain or potatoes were allowed for the distillation of spirits.
Fractional distillation is normally used to separate multicomponent liquid mixtures into several fractions.
His very late watercolours are distillations of a great master's skill.
Brown offers an expert distillation of Larkin's life and work.
This residue in its turn is then subjected to distillation under reduced pressure to give both a vacuum distillate and a vacuum residue.
Indeed, the 'recycling' offers a more teacher-friendly distillation of the rather subtle ideas expressed in his earlier books, the last two in particular.
What is presented here is a distillation which highlights the differences between the cases.
In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, pharmacy was still largely concerned with its traditional functions of the distillation and extraction of organic materials.
