Definition of filters. Meaning of filters. Synonyms of filters

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Definition of filters

Filter
Filter Fil"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filtered; p. pr. & vb. n. Filtering] [Cf. F. filter. See Filter, n., and cf. Filtrate.] To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. Filtering paper, or Filter paper, a porous unsized paper, for filtering.
Filter
Filter Fil"ter, n. [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See Feuter.] Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air. Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.
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Filter Fil"ter, v. i. To pass through a filter; to percolate.
Filter
Filter Fil"ter, n. Same as Philter.

Meaning of filters from wikipedia

- Look up Filter, filter, filtering, or filters in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Filter, filtering, filters or filtration may also refer to: Filter (higher-order...
- of air filters. Filters meeting the HEPA standard must satisfy certain levels of efficiency. Common standards require that a HEPA air filter must remove—from...
- Bloom filter. The size of counters is usually 3 or 4 bits. Hence counting Bloom filters use 3 to 4 times more space than static Bloom filters. In contrast...
- etc. Linear and circular polarising filters reduce oblique reflections from non-metallic surfaces. Many filters absorb part of the light available, necessitating...
- and can be used build filters that are particularly robust to nonstationarities in the observation model. Adaptive Kalman filters allow to adapt for process...
- up to 60% of bambus in their filters since 1998. Both bleached and unbleached filters are made. Typically, coffee filters are made up of filaments approximately...
- frequency filters would act as low-p**** wavelength filters, and vice versa. For this reason, it is a good practice to refer to wavelength filters as short-p****...
- higher-order filters from 2-pole filters separated by vacuum tube amplifiers. His plot of the frequency response of 2-, 4-, 6-, 8-, and 10-pole filters is shown...
- Filters designed by this methodology are archaically called "wave filters". Some important filters designed by this method are: Constant k filter, the...
- slow sand filters and trickling filters. It is also used as a general term for macrophage in which organisms use a variety of means to filter small food...