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  1. noun A porous material through which a liquid or gas is passed in order to separate the fluid from suspended particulate matter.
  2. noun A device containing such a material, especially one used to extract impurities from air or water.
  3. noun Any of various electric, electronic, acoustic, or optical devices used to reject signals, vibrations, or radiations of certain frequencies while allowing others to pass.
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  • Built from a mirror that detects polarization and an optical device that measures to the billionth of a meter, the filter is able to read only photons that occupy the same quantum state. —  Research & Development Today's News
  • Is there a way to programatically access the rows that are displayed after a filter has been applied? —  ASP.NET Forums
  • Note: The Category data field, to which the filter is applied, represents a foreign key (FK). —  MSDN Blogs
  • Purpose of the filter is the treatment of the condensate (demi water) in order to remove potential hydrocarbon contamination due to leakage from the up-stream heat-exchange processes.
  • If a filter kernel takes additional images as inputs, these must be set before the filter is assigned to a display object. —  Flex.org - Rich Internet Application Development
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  1. Middle English filtre, from Old French, from Medieval Latin filtrum, of Germanic origin; see pel-5 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = D. Danish Swedish filter, from French filtre, a filter, Old French feutre, felt, a filter, French feutre, felt, = Spanish Portuguese filtro = Italian feltro, felt, from Middle Latin feltrum, filtrum, felt: see felt, and cf. felter, v., feuter.
  2. = Dutch filtreren = German filtriren = Danish filtrere = Swedish filtrera, from French filtrer, Old French filtrer, earlier feutrer, = Spanish Portuguese filtrar = Italian feltrare, from Middle Latin filtrare, strain through felt, etc., from filtrum, feltrum, felt, a filter: see the noun.
 

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