different between evacuation vs exfiltration

English

Etymology

From Old French evacuation, from Late Latin ?vacu?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??vækju?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

evacuation (countable and uncountable, plural evacuations)

1. The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion, especially for safety.
2. Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, fortress, etc.
3. The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
4. Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
5. That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.

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6. Abolition; nullification.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     evacuation of all Romish ceremonies

Derived terms

Related terms

• evacuee
• evacuate
• evacuation slide

Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?vacu?ti?.

Noun

evacuation f (oblique plural evacuations, nominative singular evacuation, nominative plural evacuations)

1. (medicine) evacuation (of the bowels)

English

Noun

exfiltration (countable and uncountable, plural exfiltrations)

1. (military) The process of exiting an area (usually behind enemy lines or in enemy territory).
2. (civil engineering) A method for managing storm water runoff.
3. (sciences) A filtering out (usually movement of a substance through a barrier).
4. (biology) A gradual movement of a substance to exterior (as through cell membrane to extracellular fluid or medium).
5. (computing) Covert extraction of data.

Synonyms

• exfil (clipping)

Antonyms

• infiltration

Related terms

• exfiltrate