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filterable

a. 1 Able to be separated by filtration 2 That can pass through a specified filter

Usage examples of "filterable".

The first scientists to show that filterable agents were connected with human disease were Landsteiner and Popper in 1909.

The object was an electromagnetic torpedo, scarcely larger than a filterable virus and programmed to self-destruct after it had done its work.

It occurred to me their next method would be bacterial wastes, filterable virus we couldn't detect until actual outbreak of disease.

At least, it was a filterable organism which, like the tobacco mosaic or the slime mold, had an organizing factor.