FILTERS
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Definition
noun
- 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.
- Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
- Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.“He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail.”
- 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).“If (1) the universal set (here, the set of natural numbers) were called a "large" set, (2) the superset of any "large" set were also a "large" set, and (3) the intersection of a pair of "large" sets were also a "large" set, then the set of all "large" sets would form a filter.”
verb
- To sort, sift, or isolate.“This strainer should filter out the large particles.”
- To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.“The leaves of the trees filtered the light.”
- To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.“The water filtered through the rock and soil.”
- To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.“The crowd filtered into the theater.”
- To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road“I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering.”
Source: Wiktionary
