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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 per·co·la·tor /ˈpɝkəˌletɚ/
 過濾器;抽出器

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 per·co·la·tor /ˈpɝkəˌletɚ/ 名詞
 滲漉器,滲漉筒

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Per·co·la·tor n.
 1. One who, or that which, filters. “[Tissues] act as percolators.”
 2. A type of coffee pot in which the heated water is driven by its boiling action up above a porous canister of coffee held above the level of the water in the pot, and then filters (percolates) back through the coffee thus extracting its essence.
 3.  Pharmacy An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 percolator
      n : a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central
          tube and filters back down through a basket of ground
          coffee beans