Usually means: Device that removes unwanted components.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
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  14. Filter (TV series), Filter (Unix), Filter (aquarium), Filter (band), Filter (chemistry), Filter (disambiguation), Filter (higher-order function), Filter (large eddy simulation), Filter (magazine), Filter (mathematics), Filter (optics), Filter (photography), Filter (signal processing), Filter (software), Filter (topology), Filter (video), Filter (water), Filter, The Filter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Filter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. filter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. Filter (m), filter, filter (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
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  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
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  5. Filter (chemistry), filter: Legal dictionary
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  7. Filter: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
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  2. filter: Netlingo
  3. Filter: CCI Computer
  4. Filter: Game Dictionary
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. Filter (air), Filter (chemistry), Filter (oil), Filter (optics), filter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Filter (chemistry), Filter (water), filter: Medical dictionary

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Tech (24 matching dictionaries)
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  7. Filter: Nikonians Photo Glossary
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  9. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
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  11. FILTER: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
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  15. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  16. FILTER: The Home Appliance Page
  17. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  18. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  20. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  21. filter: Television: Critical Methods and Applications
  22. FILTER: Power Engineering
  23. Aquarium (No longer online)
  24. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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