| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | re·tort |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -tôrt , r tôrt |
| NOUN: | A closed laboratory vessel with an outlet tube, used for distillation, sublimation, or decomposition by heat. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French retorte, from Medieval Latin retorta, from feminine of Latin retortus, past participle of retorqure, to bend back. See retort1.
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