filtration

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.

Proto-Germanic *felląder.

Proto-West Germanic *feltbor.

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Italic *-trom

Latin -trum

Latin filtrumlbor.

French filtre

Proto-Italic *-āzi

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Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -āre

Old French -ier

Middle French -er

French -er

French filtrer

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ation

Middle French -ation

French -ation

French filtrationbor.

English filtration

Borrowed from French filtration.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fɪlˈtɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

filtration (countable and uncountable, plural filtrations)

1. The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
2. (mathematics, set theory, probability theory) A totally ordered collection of subsets.

Derived terms

• autofiltration
• bifiltration
• biofiltration
• cryofiltration
• defiltration
• diafiltration
• electrofiltration
• enfiltration
• haemofiltration
• hemofiltration
• hyperfiltration
• hypofiltration
• immunofiltration
• leucofiltration
• leukofiltration
• membrane filtration
• microfiltration
• mycofiltration
• nanofiltration
• normofiltration
• overfiltration
• postfiltration
• prefiltration
• refiltration
• ultrafiltration

Related terms

• exfiltration
• infiltration

Translations

filtering

• Arabic: تَرْشِيح m (taršīḥ)
• Belarusian: фільтра́цыя f (filʹtrácyja)
• Bulgarian: филтра́ция (bg) f (filtrácija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過濾 / 过滤 (zh) (guòlǜ)

• Czech: filtrace f
• Dutch: filtratie (nl) f
• French: filtration (fr) f
• Georgian: ფილტრაცია (pilṭracia)
• German: Filtrierung f
• Greek: διήθηση (el) f (diíthisi)

  Ancient Greek: διήθησις f (diḗthēsis)

• Indonesian: filtrasi (id)
• Italian: filtraggio (it) m
• Japanese: 濾過 (ja) (ろか, roka), 沪過 (ろか, roka)
• Korean: 여과(濾過) (yeogwa), 려과(濾過) (ko) (ryeogwa) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: parzûnkirin (ku)

• Macedonian: филтрација f (filtracija)
• Malay: penapisan
• Polish: filtracja f
• Romanian: filtrare (ro) f, filtraj (ro) n
• Russian: фильтра́ция (ru) f (filʹtrácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: филтра́ција f

  Latin: filtrácija (sh) f

• Slovak: filtrácia f
• Slovene: filtracija f
• Spanish: filtración (es)
• Swedish: filtration (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagsasala
• Ukrainian: фільтра́ція f (filʹtrácija)

Anagrams

• flirtation, triflation

French

Etymology

From filtrer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fil.tʁa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

filtration f (plural filtrations)

1. filtration

Related terms

• filtrage

Further reading

• “filtration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012