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English Dictionary: Filter	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for Filter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
filter n device that removes something from whatever passes through it an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it v remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities" Synonym(s): filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter out pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" Synonym(s): percolate, sink in, permeate, filter run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" Synonym(s): trickle, dribble, filter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Filter \Fil"ter\, v. i. To pass through a filter; to percolate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Filter \Fil"ter\, n. Same as {Philter}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Filter \Fil"ter\, n. [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See {Feuter}.] Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air. {Filter bed}, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. {Filter gallery}, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also {infiltration gallery}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Filter \Fil"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Filtered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Filtering}] [Cf. F. filter. See {Filter}, n., and cf. {Filtrate}.] To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. {Filtering paper}, [or] {Filter paper}, a porous unsized paper, for filtering.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
filter n. [very common; orig. {{Unix}}, now also in {{MS-DOS}}] A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditions; one designed to be used as a stage in a `pipeline' (see {plumbing}). Compare {sponge}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
filter 1. (Originally {Unix}, now also {MS-DOS}) A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditions; one designed to be used as a stage in a {pipeline} (see {plumbing}). Compare {sponge}. 2. ({functional programming}) A {higher-order function} which takes a {predicate} and a list and returns those elements of the list for which the predicate is true. In {Haskell}: filter p [] = [] filter p (x:xs) = if p x then x : rest else rest where rest = filter p xs See also {filter promotion}. [{Jargon File}]