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percolator

UK/ˈpɜːkəleɪtə/US/ˈpɝkəleɪtɚ/

percolator noun: a device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds.

percolator: a device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds
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Noun

percolator (plural percolators)

  1. A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds.
    • She heard the percolator bell ring.1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 176
  2. A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.

percolator meaning in Tamil

percolator in Tamil

வடிகட்டி, ஊடுவடிகருவி, ஊடுருவிப்பான்

Forms of percolator

pluralpercolators

Origin of percolator

From percolate + -or.

Words formed from percolator

Questions about percolator

What does percolator mean?
Percolator means a device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds.
What is percolator in Tamil?
Percolator in Tamil is வடிகட்டி, ஊடுவடிகருவி, ஊடுருவிப்பான். See Percolator meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is percolator?
Percolator is a noun.
How do you pronounce percolator?
Percolator is pronounced /ˈpɜːkəleɪtə/ (UK).
What is the plural of percolator?
The plural of percolator is percolators.

Words near percolator in the dictionary

  1. percolation theories
  2. percolation theory
  3. percolations
  4. percolative
  5. percolatively
  6. percolator
  7. percolators
  8. percoll
  9. percolozoan
  10. percolozoans
  11. percomorph

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Adapted from Wiktionary: percolator (page history and authors); percolator (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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