Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being distilled; fit for distillation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
distilled , especially capably of being distilled without chemicaldecomposition
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Examples
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Not only that, it it needs to be distillable into understandable language for the uninitiated, because in my experience most Faculty and Administrators can not really appreciate what the possibilities of virtual words are.
Virtual reality and higher education: Another perspective 2007
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This is strange, because on a rereading, the book seems easily distillable.
The decorated world. bradamant 2006
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The light aromatic materials, and the other substances which are steam-distillable, i.e. which are driven off when coffee is concentrated by boiling, are the main determining factors in the individuality of coffees.
All About Coffee 1909
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One clever but expensive method [143] of preparing caffein-free coffee consists in heating the beans under pressure, with some substance, such as sodium salicylate, with the resultant formation of a more soluble and more easily steam-distillable compound of caffein.
All About Coffee 1909
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But in this case, the subject matter is distillable into a handful of concepts, and the exams use questions with only a single correct answer.
NYT > Home Page By RANDALL STROSS 2011
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On issue after issue - same-sex marriage, gun control, Muslim rights - they fly straight as a bullet to their final conclusion, usually distillable to the width of a bumper sticker.
The Seattle Times 2011
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On the other hand, I would think this might appeal to Althouse: There’s not really any unified, easily distillable argument in Gingrich's ... proposals, no ideology that might be charted on a continuum and labeled accordingly.
"I think I’m closer to Benjamin Franklin than to George Washington..." Ann Althouse 2009
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