| NOUN | process | drying up, dehydration, desiccation, evaporation | the process of extracting moisture |
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| Meaning | The process of extracting moisture. | |
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| Synonyms | dehydration, desiccation, evaporation | |
| Part of | plastination | A process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues |
| Narrower | freeze-drying, lyophilization, lyophilisation | A method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure |
| inspissation | The process of thickening by dehydration | |
| Broader | extraction | The process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means |
| Spanish | desecación, deshidratación | |
| Catalan | deshidratació, dessecació | |
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