filter
A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid,…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.
Meaning
7 sensesA device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
Filter
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Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
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Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail.
Filter
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(figuratively)Self-restraint in speech.
He's got no filter, and he's always offending people as a result.
A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
The collection of cofinite subsets of ℝ is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set.
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A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.
An appearance-altering digital image effect.
- device that removes something from whatever passes through it
- an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
Examples
124 sentencesHow do you change the filter?
Як міняється фільтр? — deniko
Did you change the filter?
Ти поміняв фільтр? — deniko
ruТы менял фильтр? — marafon
deHast du den Filter ausgetauscht? — Luiaard
You need to change your air filter.
You should replace the filter every three months.
How often do you change your oil filter?
deWie oft wechselst du deinen Ölfilter? — Waldelfe
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English filtre, from Medieval Latin filtrum (compare also Old French feutre (“From Middle English filtre, from Medieval Latin filtrum (compare also Old French feutre (“felt; filter”)), from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-West Germanic *felt. See felt. Doublet of phin.
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