Usually means: Apparatus for continuous solvent extraction.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Soxhlet extractor)

noun:  (chemistry) A piece of laboratory apparatus consisting of a glass reservoir that sits over a lower flask (containing a boiling solvent) and under a condenser; a sample contained in a paper thimble is placed in the reservoir and soluble materials are continually extracted by the warm solvent and transferred to the lower flask via a siphon.

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