sieve
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-Germanic *sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb- (“to pour, sieve, strain, run, drip”). Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Proto-Slavic *sito (Russian си́то (síto), сев (sev), се́ять (séjatʹ)).
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Noun[edit]
sieve (plural sieves)
- A device to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, 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.
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2010, Luke Mastin, “20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS - ROBINSON AND MATIYASEVICH”, in www.storyofmathematics.com[1], retrieved 2013-09-08:
- Among, [sic] his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.
- 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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- (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)
- (category theory) A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under pre-composition by any morphism in the category.
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Translations[edit]
device to separate larger and smaller objects
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process that filters out unwanted pieces of input
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Verb[edit]
sieve (third-person singular simple present sieves, present participle sieving, simple past and past participle sieved)
Translations[edit]
to strain, sift or sort using a sieve
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