filter

IPA: fˈɪɫtɝ

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.

(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

Examples of "filter" in Sentences

$filter - You assign a filter expression to this parameter to filter the movie results.
I need a more functional bottle and a filter is a good addition to any daily water bottle.
What you can put in the text box to filter is anything you would put after '$filter =' in a
For example, a call to polymorphic_path ([@project, @filter, @issue]) with a nil filter now returns commit
Plus there's a lot more things you'll want to filter other than just whats provided by the filter_* functions.
Cast post a whole host of words which trigger the word filter yet no one seems to know what the list of words are.
Raising his voice Clay boomed into the microphone, "the filter is the single most important function on the internet today."
Setting up a filter is the same whether you're working with ad groups, keywords, or placement; though, the criteria you can filter by does depend on what you're trying to filter.
So the kind of filtering described above might well pass muster for “targeting persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States,” even if it scoops up a lot of stuff that proves not to be germane, provided the filter is at least reasonably well designed to gather information about the target foreign group.