Usually means: Devices that remove unwanted elements.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. filters: Merriam-Webster
  2. filters: Collins English Dictionary
  3. filters: Vocabulary.com
  4. Filter's, Filters, filter's, filters: Wordnik
  5. filters: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. filters: Wiktionary
  7. filters: Dictionary.com
  8. filters: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Filters: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. filters: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. filters: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. filters: Legal dictionary
  2. filters: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  2. filters: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. filters: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. filters: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. filters: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Filters: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. filters: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Filter)

noun:  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.
noun:  Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
noun:  Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
noun:  (figurative) Self-restraint in speech.
noun:  (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
noun:  (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.
noun:  (social media) an appearance-altering digital image effect
verb:  (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
verb:  (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
verb:  (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
verb:  (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
verb:  (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
verb:  (intransitive, derogatory, fandom slang) To be discouraged where a connoisseur or hardcore fan would not.
noun:  A surname from German.
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