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Definition filter

Etymology

From Middle English filtre, from Medieval Latin filtrum (compare also Old French feutre (“felt; filter”)), from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-Germanic *feltaz. See felt.

Noun

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.
4. (figuratively) self-restraint in speech.
5. (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
2. (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
3. (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
4. (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
5. (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road

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