filter
IPA: fˈɪɫtɝ
noun
- 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.
- Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
- Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
- (figurative) self-restraint in speech.
- (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
- (photography) A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.
- A surname from German.
verb
- (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
- (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
- (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
- (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
- (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
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Examples of "filter" in Sentences
- The medium of the filter is sand.
- The filter can be cranky sometimes.
- The clean water cleanses the filter.
- You should pour the water into the filter.
- The reason was that the filter was inefficient.
- The water is used to filter by absorbing the ammonia.
- Most of the contaminants can be filtered out from water very cheaply.
- A deposit filtering apparatus and method for filtering turbid liquids.
- Can we find out what the nature of the spamming is and refine the filter
- It is a deposit filtering apparatus and method for filtering turbid liquids.
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