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filter
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities" [syn: filtrate , strain , separate out , filter out ] pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" [syn: percolate , sink in , permeate ] run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "piece of felt through which liquid is strained," from Old French feutre "felt, felt hat, carpet" (Modern French filtre ) and directly from Medieval Latin filtrum "felt" (used to strain impurities from liquid), from West Germanic *filtiz (see ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Filter \Fil"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filtered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Filtering ] [Cf. F. filter. See Filter , n., and cf. Filtrate .] To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. Filtering paper , or Filter paper ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics , a filter is a special subset of a partially ordered set . For example, the power set of some set, partially ordered by set inclusion, is a filter. Filters appear in order and lattice theory , but can also be found in topology whence they ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another. 2 electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from ...
Usage examples of filter.
Did the tractors clog with aeroplankton in their air filters and carburetors?
And thanks to the aeroplankton, everyone now had to own, and wear during the aeroplankton storms, filter-masks conveniently designed to filter out the microorganism and forty-seven varieties of industrial pollutants.
Cherry delivered his beer, Arian sat quietly watching people filter in.
Tiny bright red bubbles roiled up from his exposed larynx, each prismatically ashimmer with filtered sunlight, a hundred miniature rainbows dipped in blood.
He filters and trickles through the dense social body in every possible direction, and issues forth at last the same virginal water drop.
Once a year, all the barons traveled to the Dulce facility to have their blood filtered and their autoimmune systems boosted.
They ate on the stoep in golden sunshine that filtered through the bougainvillaea creeper.
Somehow-though not from Celia, who kept her own counsel-a report of her encounter with Eli Camperdown filtered through the company.
She damped down the carburetion filter until all five engines were running in harmony.
Any coloured residue which may be left is generally organic matter: it is filtered off, calcined, and any copper it contains is estimated colorimetrically.
The residue contains the antimony as antimonate of soda, and is dissolved off the filter with hot dilute hydrochloric, with the help of a little tartaric, acid.
Cecil dropped his cigarette butt and crushed the biodegradable filter and detoxifier with his shoe.
London dawn had come, the place was full of a chilly grey light that filtered round the edges of the window blinds.
And even then they filtered tinny and absurd through the lid, even as Isaac fell into the stream of warm, faecal water, and staggered along the tunnels following the other survivors.
Type Ia supernovas as observed through blue and violet filters, and found significant differences in falloff times of the light from one object to another, from falloff in about 10 days to over 30 days.