Definitions for filter
ˈfɪl tərfil·ter

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. filternoun

   device that removes something from whatever passes through it

2. filterverb

   an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it

3. filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter outverb

   remove by passing through a filter

   "filter out the impurities"

4. percolate, sink in, permeate, filterverb

   pass through

   "Water permeates sand easily"

5. trickle, dribble, filterverb

   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"

Wiktionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. filternoun

   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. filternoun

   Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.

3. filternoun

   Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.

4. filternoun

   A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).

   The collection of cofinite subsets of is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set.

5. filterverb

   To sort, sift, or isolate.

6. filterverb

   To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.

7. filterverb

   To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.

8. filterverb

   To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.

9. filterverb

   To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road

10. Etymology: (noun) From filtrum, from West Germanic *filtiz.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Filternoun

   Etymology: filtrum, Latin.

   1. A twist of thread, of which one end is dipped in the liquor to be desecated, and the other hangs below the bottom of the vessel, so that the liquor drips from it. See New dispensatory.2. A strainer; a searce.

   That the water, passing through the veins of the earth, should be rendered fresh and potable, which it cannot be by any percolations we can make, but the saline particles will pass through a tenfold filter. John Ray, on the Creation.

2. To FILTERverb

   Etymology: filtro, low Latin; per filum trahere.

   1. To desecate by drawing off liquor by depending threads.2. To strain; to percolate.

   Dilute this liquor with fair water, filtre it through a paper, and so evaporate it. Nehemiah Grew, Musæum.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Filternoun

   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. Filternoun

   to purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter

3. Filterverb

   to pass through a filter; to percolate

4. Filternoun

   same as Philter

5. Etymology: [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See Feuter.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Filter

   Filter is an industrial rock group formed in 1993 in Cleveland by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang. Filter has released six studio albums, the most recent being The Sun Comes Out Tonight, which was released on June 4, 2013.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Filter

   fil′ter, n. a contrivance arranged for purifying a liquid of solid insoluble matter by passing it through some porous substance which does not allow the solid particles to pass through.—v.t. to purify liquor by a filter.—v.i. to pass through a filter: to percolate.—ns. Fil′ter-pā′per, porous paper for use in filtering; Fil′ter-pump, a contrivance devised by the chemist Bunsen for accelerating the filtering process. [O. Fr. filtre—Low L. filtrum, felt.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. filter

   A strainer to free water from its impurities, usually termed by seamen drip-stone (which see).

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1. filter

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'filter' in Nouns Frequency: #1863

Anagrams for filter »

1. lifter

2. trifle

3. relift

4. fertil

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of filter in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of filter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of filter in a Sentence

1. Air Force:

   The aircraft is equipped with external flow-through devices to collect particulates on filter paper and a compressor system for whole air samples collected in holding spheres.

2. David Andrews:

   The important part is that you have to keep changing those filters, if you don't change that filter, and it becomes saturated, the levels of PFAS in the filtered water can actually be above the levels in the tap water.

3. Sophie Power:

   When the gases pass through our filter there's a chemical reaction that absorbs them into our filter.

4. Tom Emrich:

   What I don’t like are the notifications, because they aren’t contextual and there’s no way to filter them based on what I want to see and what I don’t want to see, google Glass could have solved the ergonomic problem with having to glance down at a smartphone constantly, yet having every single text message and email pop-up is not helpful.

5. April Masini:

   I hear from lots of people looking for love, unsuccessfully, that they’ve got a restrictive list of ‘filters,’ including age, when you open your age range filter by including younger people among your possibilities, you’ve got a whole new group of folks to date.

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