different between simplification vs distillation

English

Etymology

From the French simplification.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?mpl?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: sim?pli?fi?ca?tion

Noun

simplification (countable and uncountable, plural simplifications)

1. the act of simplifying or something that has been simplified
2. (logic) a valid simple argument

Translations

French

Etymology

simplifier +? -(at)ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.pli.fi.ka.sj??/

Noun

simplification f (plural simplifications)

1. simplification

Descendants

• English: simplification

References

• “simplification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English distillacioun, from Anglo-Norman distillacioun, from Latin dist?ll?ti?nem, accusative of dist?ll?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?st??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

distillation (countable and uncountable, plural distillations)

1. The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
2. That which falls in drops.
3. (chemistry, chemical engineering) The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by evaporation and condensation.
   1. Purification through repeated or continuous distilling; rectification.
   2. (petroleum) Separation into specific hydrocarbon groups; fractionation.
4. The substance extracted by distilling.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, III. v. 104:

     to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking / clothes that fretted in their own grease.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 5:

     Then, were not summer's distillation left,

     A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass ...

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