| n. | 1. | One who, or that which, filters. |
| 2. | A type of coffee pot in which the heated water is driven by its boiling action up above a porous canister of coffee held above the level of the water in the pot, and then filters (percolates) back through the coffee thus extracting its essence. | |
| 3. | (Pharmacy) An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation. |
| Noun | 1. | percolator - a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans |
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