treater

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treater

noun treaters

  1. One who or that which treats. I don't know why I do things like that except that sometimes I think that the principal difference between the treater and the treatee is that the treater is in possession of the keys, if only in a symbolic sense […]
  2. A vessel used to treat oil-water emulsions by any of several mechanisms so that the oil can be accepted by the pipeline or transport.

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@misc{treater_2026,
  title = {treater},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/treater},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}