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FILTERING
Verb
filtering
present participle of filter
Noun
filtering (plural filterings)
The process of passing something through a filter.
Something that passes through a filter.
Synonyms
• filtrate
Anagrams
• liftering, relifting
Source: Wiktionary
FILTER
Fil"ter, n. Etym: [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See Feuter.]
Definition: 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.
Fil"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filtered; p. pr. & vb. n. Filtering] Etym: [Cf. F. filter. See Filter, n., and cf. Filtrate.]
Definition: 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.
Fil"ter, v. i.
Definition: To pass through a filter; to percolate.
Fil"ter, n.
Definition: Same as Philter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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