Filter

Definitions

1. A surname from German.
2. A surname from German
3. 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.
4. Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
5. Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
6. Self-restraint in speech.
   figuratively
7. A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
8. 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.
9. An appearance-altering digital image effect.

Equivalents

42 more languages

العربيةالمرشّحراووقفلترمِصْفَايَة+ 1 more

Bosanskifiltarfiltersitoфилтарфилтер+ 2 more

Catalàfiltrarfiltre

Češtinafiltrfiltrovat

Ελληνικάδιηθώδιυλίζωδιυλιστήριοφιλτράρωφίλτρο+ 2 more

Esperantofiltrifiltrilo

Suomierottaaerottuafiltterihajottaasiivilöityäsuodatinsuodattaasuodattuasuodintippuavalua+ 8 more

Gàidhligsìolaidh

עבריתמסנןסינן

हिन्दीछन्नी

Hrvatskifiltarfiltersitoфилтарфилтер+ 2 more

Magyarszűrő

Bahasa Indonesiafilterpenapis

Íslenskasía

Italianofiltrarefiltro

日本語フィルター濾濾波器濾過器+ 1 more

ქართულიფილტრი

Қазақ тілісүзгісүзгіш

ភាសាខ្មែរតម្រង

한국어釃려과기여과기필터+ 1 more

Kurdîfîlterfîltreşîatatarî+ 1 more

Latinafiltrumliquopercōlōsacco+ 1 more

Latviešufiltrs

Te Reo Māoritātari

Македонскифилтер

मराठीगाळणीगाळणे

Bahasa Melayupenapis

မြန်မာစစ်ရေစစ်ရေစစ်အိုး

Nederlandsdruppelenfilterfilterensijpelen+ 1 more

Polskifiltrfiltrowaćprzenikaćprzeniknąćrozpraszaćrozproszyćsączyć sięsito+ 5 more

Portuguêscrivofiltrarfiltro

Românăfiltrafiltrustrecura

Русскийотфильтрова́тьпросачиватьсяпросочитьсяпрофильтрова́тьфильтрфильтроватьфильтрова́ться+ 4 more

Shqipfiltër

Српскиfiltarfiltersitoфилтарфилтер+ 2 more

Svenskafilterfiltrerarenare

Kiswahilichungakichujiokichungi

ไทยกรองเครื่องกรอง

Tagalogpanala

Türkçefiltre

Українськафільтрфільтрува́тифільтрува́тися

Tiếng Việtbờ lốclộcphinxâm nhập+ 1 more

Examples

“Then add⟳ four drops of crocodile semen, and pass⟳ the mixture through a filter.”

“He runs an email filter to catch⟳ the junk mail.”

“In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct⟳ marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last⟳ year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post⟳, only 3% bought anything as a result⟳. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.”

“He's got no filter, and he's always offending people as a result⟳.”

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“He don't need⟳ no filter posting pictures!”

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