filter

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Etymology [edit]

(noun) From Medieval Latin filtrum, from West Germanic *filtiz.

Noun [edit]

filter (plural filters)

  1. 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. Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
  3. Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
    • He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail.
  4. (mathematics, order theory) 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 ℝ is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set.
    If (1) the universal set (here, the set of natural numbers) were called a "large" set, (2) the superset of any "large" set were also a "large" set, and (3) the intersection of a pair of "large" sets were also a "large" set, then the set of all "large" sets would form a filter.

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Translations [edit]

device for separating impurities from a fluid or other substance
electronics or software to separate unwanted signal
any device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate
collection of subsets
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Verb [edit]

filter (third-person singular simple present filters, present participle filtering, simple past and past participle filtered)

  1. (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
    • This strainer should filter out the large particles.
    • 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 5, The Subtle Minotaur[1]:
      “You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.”
  2. (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
    • The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
  3. (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
    • The water filtered through the rock and soil.
  4. (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
    • The crowd filtered into the theater.
  5. (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
    • I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.

Synonyms [edit]

  • (to sort, sift, or isolate) to filter out (something)

Translations [edit]

to sort, sift, or isolate
to diffuse
to pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter
to come or go a few at a time
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Danish [edit]

Noun [edit]

filter n (singular definite filtret or filteret, plural indefinite filtre)

  1. filter

Inflection [edit]

    Inflection of filter
neuter gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative filter filtret
filteret		 filtre filtrene
genitive filters filtrets
filterets		 filtres filtrenes

Dutch [edit]

Noun [edit]

filter m, n (plural filters, diminutive filtertje)

  1. filter

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German [edit]

Verb [edit]

filter

  1. First-person singular present of filtern.
  2. Imperative singular of filtern.

Serbo-Croatian [edit]

Alternative forms [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /fǐlter/
  • Hyphenation: fil‧ter

Noun [edit]

fìlter m (Cyrillic spelling фѝлтер)

  1. filter

Swedish [edit]

Noun [edit]

filter n

  1. A filter.

Declension [edit]

Declension of filter
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative filter filtret filter filtren
genitive filters filtrets filters filtrens
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