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1. (n.) filter
any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or charcoal, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
2. filter
any device, as a tank or tube, containing such a substance for filtering.
3. filter
any of various analogous devices, as for removing dust from air or impurities from tobacco smoke.
4. filter
Informal. a filter-tipped cigarette or cigar.
5. filter
a lens screen of dyed gelatin or glass used in photography to control the rendering of color or to diminish the intensity of light.
6. filter
an electronic circuit or device that passes certain frequencies and blocks others.
7. (v.t.) filter
to remove by the action of a filter.
8. filter
to act as a filter for; to slow or partially obstruct the passage of.
9. filter
to pass through or as if through a filter.
10. (v.i.) filter
to pass or slip through slowly, as through an obstruction or a filter; penetrate.
Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME filtre < ML filtrum felt, piece of felt used to strain liquids < Gmc; see felt2)
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| Definition of 'Filter' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) filter
device that removes something from whatever passes through it
2. (verb) filter
an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
3. (verb) filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter out
remove by passing through a filter
"filter out the impurities"
4. (verb) percolate, sink in, permeate, filter
pass through
"Water permeates sand easily"
5. (verb) trickle, dribble, filter
run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
"water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in"
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1. (verb) filter
to clean by passing through a filter
We filter our drinking water.
2. filter
to gradually enter
daylight filtered into the room
3. filter
to gradually become known
News of the bombings began to filter through to the capital.
4. (noun) filter
a device which removes unwanted things from liquid or gas
a water filter
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Filter
any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air
2. (noun) Filter
to purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter
3. (noun) Filter
same as Philter
4. (verb) Filter
to pass through a filter; to percolate
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. Filter
[very common; orig. Unix] A program that
processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some
well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error
conditions; one designed to be used as a stage in a pipeline (see plumbing).
Compare sponge.
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| Definition of 'Filter' |
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms |
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1. Filter
In electronics, a device which transmits only part of the incident energy and may thereby change the spectral distribution of energy: a. High pass filters transmit energy above a certain frequency; b. Low pass filters transmit energy below a certain frequency; c. Band pass filters transmit energy of a certain bandwidth; d. Band stop filters transmit energy outside a specific frequency band.
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Sense: a strainer or other device through which liquid, gas, smoke etc can pass, but not solid material
A filter is used to make sure that the oil is clean and does not contain any dirt; (
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 Afrikaans: filter; filtreerder |
 Arabic: جِهاز تَرْشيح |
 Bulgarian: цедка |
 Brazilian: filtro |
 Czech: filtr; filtrový |
 German: der Filter, Filter-... |
 Danish: filter; filter- |
 Greek: φίλτρο |
 Spanish: filtro |
 Estonian: filter |
 Farsi: صافی |
 Finnish: suodatin |
 French: filtre |
 Hebrew: מַסנֵן |
 Hindi: छलनी |
 Croatian: filter, cjedilo |
 Hungarian: szűrő |
 Indonesian: saringan |
 Icelandic: sía, filter |
 Italian: filtro |
 Japanese: 濾過器 |
 Korean: 필터 |
 Lithuanian: filtras |
 Latvian: filtrs; filtr- |
 Malay: penuras |
 Dutch: filter |
 Norwegian: filter |
 Polish: filtr |
 Persian: صافی |
 Pashto: نينوونى، فلټر |
 Portuguese: filtro |
 Romanian: filtru |
 Russian: фильтр |
 Slovak: filter; filtrový |
 Slovenian: filter |
 Serbian: filter |
 Swedish: filter |
 Thai: เครื่องกรอง |
 Turkish: filtre, süzgeç |
 Taiwanese: 過濾器 |
 Ukrainian: фільтр; цідилко |
 Urdu: مائع یا گیس سے ٹھوس ذرے و |
 Vietnamese: máy lọc; cái lọc |
 Chinese: 过滤器 |
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