sieve
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old English sife, Proto-Germanic *sibi. Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Slavic *sito (Russian сито, сев, сеять).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
sieve (plural sieves)
- A device to separate larger objects from smaller objects, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
- Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
- A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
- Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
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[edit] Translations
device to separate larger objects
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process that filters out unwanted pieces of input
[edit] Verb
sieve (third-person singular simple present sieves, present participle sieving, simple past and past participle sieved)
[edit] Translations
to strain, sift or sort using a sieve
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