Distillation vs Oscillation - What's the difference?
distillation | oscillation |
The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
That which falls in drops.
(chemistry, chemical engineering) The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.
The substance extracted by distilling.
* 1599 , , III. v. 104:
the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated
a regular periodic fluctuation in value about some mean
a single such cycle
(mathematics) (of a function) defined for each point in the domain of the function by , and describes the difference (possibly ?) between the limit superior and limit inferior of the function near that point.
As nouns the difference between distillation and oscillation
is that distillation is distillation while oscillation is the act of oscillating or the state of being oscillated.distillation
English
(wikipedia distillation)Noun
- (Johnson)
- to be stopped in, like a strong distillation , with stinking / clothes that fretted in their own grease.
