ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Filtering

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Filtering is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of filter.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of filter.

More Meanings

  1. The process of passing something through a filter.
  2. Something that passes through a filter.

Example Sentences

the filterings from the subsoils
Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight […]

Word Forms

Synonyms for filtering

Depending on context, synonyms include filtrate.

Related Words

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

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