Filter

Quick meaning: Filter is a noun meaning Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.

Meaning

Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.

More Meanings

1. Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
2. (figurative) Self-restraint in speech.
3. (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
4. (social media) An appearance-altering digital image effect.
5. (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
6. 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.
7. (photography) 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.

Example Sentences

He don't need no filter posting pictures!

He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail.

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

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

Word Forms

• filters
• filtering
• filtered

Synonyms for filter

Depending on context, synonyms include strain, permeate, dribble, percolate, trickle, filtrate.

Antonyms for filter

Common opposites include ideal.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include filtrate, percolate, permeate, trickle, strain, dribble.

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