destilación

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dēstillātiōnem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /destilaˈθjon/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /destilaˈsjon/
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: des‧ti‧la‧ción

Noun

destilación f (plural destilaciones)

  1. distillation
    • 2015 October 20, “Columna”, in El País:
      La obra de Johann Sebastian Bach es un ejemplo, más bien una evidencia, quizá única en la historia del arte, de un fenómeno que se me ocurre llamar destilación genética.
      Johann Sebastian Bach's oeuvre is an example, or rather evidence, perhaps unique in the history of art, of a phenomenon I like to call genetic distillation.

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