"percolator" meaning in English

See percolator in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈpɜːkəleɪtə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɝkəleɪtɚ/ [General-American] Forms: percolators [plural]
Etymology: From percolate + -or. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|percolate|-or|text=+|tree=1}} From percolate + -or. Head templates: {{en-noun}} percolator (plural percolators)
  1. A device used to brew coffee by passing boiling water through coffee grounds. Translations (coffee brewing device): սրճեփ (srčepʻ) (Armenian), kafaparato (Esperanto), perkolaattori (Finnish), pulputuspannu (Finnish), percolateur [masculine] (French), Perkolator [masculine] (German), síothlán (caife) [masculine] (Irish), macchinetta [feminine] (Italian), кофеқайнатқыш (kofeqaynatqıš) (Kazakh), кофева́рка (kofevárka) [feminine] (Russian), perkolator [common-gender] (Swedish), кавова́рка (kavovárka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. A pharmaceutical apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: perk

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