FILTER

/ˈfɪltə/ ► audio Scrabble 9 Words With Friends 10

Definition

  1. noun device that removes something from whatever passes through it.
  2. noun an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it.
  3. verb remove by passing through a filter. — synonyms: filtrate, strain, separate_out, filter_out
  4. verb pass through. — synonyms: percolate, sink_in, permeate
  5. verb run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream. — synonyms: trickle, dribble

Examples

  • “He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail.”
  • “He's got no filter, and he's always offending people as a result.”
  • “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.”

Anagrams of FILTER

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