SIEVE
/sɪv/
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Scrabble
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Definition
/sɪv/
noun
- A device with a mesh bottom 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.“Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.”
- A kind of coarse basket.
- A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
- 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.
verb
- To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
- To concede; let in
Source: Wiktionary
