decanting
English edit
Verb edit
decanting
- present participle and gerund of decant
Noun edit
decanting (plural decantings)
- The process by which a liquid is decanted.
- 1855, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow:
- I then took a piece of dry stone, ground it fine in a mortar, and placed the powder in water, the sand particles sunk rapidly to the bottom, while the clay remained suspended, and by several washings and decantings the sand and clay could be approximately separated […]