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filter | American Dictionary

filter
noun[ C ]
us/ˈfɪl·tər/
a piece of equipment or a device for removing solids from liquids or gases, or for limiting the particular type of light, sound, or electricity going through it:
an oil filter
a coffee filter
filter
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈfɪl·tər/
If something filters down, in, out, or through, it appears or happens gradually or to a limited degree:
[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]Reports of the accident began to filter in.
[ Ialways+ adv/prep ]Sunlight filtered through the branches.

filter | Business English

filter
noun[ C ]
 ITuk /ˈfɪltər/us
a computer program that receives and processes information before displaying it or preventing it from being seen:
Junk email filters help define which email messages are spam.
This web filter enables administrators to monitor user behaviour.
filter
verb[ T ]
 ITuk /ˈfɪltər/us
to use a computer program to process information before displaying it or preventing it from being seen:
The company, whose products filter email and internet content, confirmed a record second quarter yesterday.

filtering

noun[ U ]
Email filtering is the removal of unwanted email, for example spam or a phishing attempt, before it reaches your mailbox.

Examples of filter

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Hence, if one is attempting to extract the correlated signal, then, with increasing noise, the filters must restrict their filtering to lower and lower frequencies.
The resulting code of the first stage is filtered to reduce the quantal noise.
Luminance levels were controlled by placing neutral density filters directly in front of the cat's eyes.
Other responses characteristics (such as filters or nonlinearities) may also influence the phase data.
Test luminances were reduced by attenuating the light source with neutral density filters.
The intensity and spectral content of each beam was independently controlled by sets of neutral density and narrowband interference filters.
The intensity of the light was adjusted using an array of neutral density filters mounted below the shutter.
The radiance of each beam could be varied by the insertion of fixed or variable neutral density filters.
The second-stage filters would then detect spatial variations in feature content.
A review of ver tebrate and inver tebrate ocular filters.
They were not retained by bacterial filters, were not visible in the light microscope, and did not grow on sterile bacterial media.
The potential of this sort of filtering for literary scholarship should be clear.
In the first stage of the model, the input was convolved with a set of disparity energy filters.
A thorough presentation of filtering semantics and design choices is given, focusing on network bandwidth efficiency but neglecting any engineering support.
All screenings were performed on duplicate filters and positive clones isolated and sequenced.
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Collocations withfilter

filter

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adaptive filter
The simulations reproduced, with satisfactory fidelity, bipolar cells' observed quasilinear adaptivefilter behaviors.
auditory filter
Auditory filter shapes derived with noise stimuli.
blue filter
A bluefilter before the entrance window did cut v and 2v light.
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