DISTILLED WATER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distilled water mean? 

• DISTILLED WATER (noun)
  The noun DISTILLED WATER has 1 sense:

1. water that has been purified by distillation

  Familiarity information: DISTILLED WATER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTILLED WATER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Water that has been purified by distillation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("distilled water" is a kind of...):

H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)

 Context examples 

The radiodensity of distilled water at standard temperature and pressure is zero on the Hounsfield scale.

(Hounsfield Unit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A traditional unit of volume designed to contain 10 pounds of distilled water under precisely defined conditions and equal to 4.546 091 liters, 277.4194 cubic inches, or 1.20095 US liquid gallons, or 1.03206 US dry gallons.

(Gallon British, NCI Thesaurus)

Derived by boiling impure water and condensing the resultant steam in a sterile container, distilled water has been shown to kill bladder cancer cells in vitro through osmotic lysis (cytolysis)

(Distilled Water, NCI Thesaurus)