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Look up: filter


  1. Filter
    To remove lumps, excess liquid, or impurities by passing through paper or cheesecloth.
    Found op http://www.wrenscottage.com/kitchen/glossary.php

  2. Filter
    [higher-order function] In functional programming, filter is a higher-order function that processes a data structure (typically a list) in some order to produce a new data structure containing exactly those elements of the original data structure for which a given predicate returns the boole...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(higher-order_function)

  3. Filter
    [aquarium] Aquarium filters are critical components of both freshwater and marine aquaria. Aquarium filters remove physical and soluble chemical waste products from aquaria, simplifying maintenance. Furthermore, aquarium filters are necessary to support life as aquaria are relatively small, ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(aquarium)

  4. 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. (functio...
    Found op http://foldoc.org/filter

  5. Filter
    To remove impurities by passing through paper, cheesecloth or chinoise.
    Found op http://www.goodcooking.com/winedefs.html

  6. Filter
    A rule that stipulates when a security should be bought or sold according to past price action.
    Found op http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/glossary/bfglosf.htm

  7. Filter
    See Colour Filter.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  8. Filter
    Hardware or software designed to restrict access to certain areas on the Internet.
    Found op http://www.mantex.co.uk/samples/glo-2.htm

  9. filter
    [n] - an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it 2. [n] - device that removes something from whatever passes through it 3. [v] - remove by passing through a filter
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=filter

  10. Filter
    Something with small holes in it used in filtering.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20442

  11. Filter
    1) A device that removes signals with frequencies above or below a certain point called the cut-off frequency.
    2) An equalizer section, used in this sense because filters are used with other components to give an equalizer its frequency response characteristics.
    3) The action of removing signa...
    Found op http://www.testing1212.co.uk/a.htm

  12. Filter
    (Digital cameras and photo printers) 1. A transparent, mostly coloured sheet of glass or plastic that can be placed in front of a lens to create a certain effect. 2. An option in an image editing program that enables certain adjustments to the picture, e.g. colour and brightness or foreshortening.
    Found op http://www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/208_1010.htm



  1. Filter
    To remove impurities or solid particles from a liquid or gas, e.g., the removal of dust particles from air that is breathed in as it passes the hairs that line the nose.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20560

  2. Filter
    a circuit which permits certain frequencies to pass easily while inhibiting or preventing others. Typical filters include low pass, high pass, band pass, and band reject. A function that cuts off a specific frequency band to change a sounds brightness, thickness and other qualities. A few common fil...
    Found op http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/music%20tech%20glossary/Music%20Tech%20Gl

  3. Filter
    Audio, Electronics, Signal ProcessingAny of various electric, electronic, acoustic, or optical devices used to reject signals, vibrations, or radiation of certain frequencies while passing others. Think sieve: pass what you want, reject all else. For audio use the most common electronic filter is a ...
    Found op http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/source/f/i/filter/source.html

  4. Filter
    To separate an insoluble solid from a liquid by pour it through a solid (usually paper) to trap the solid particles and separate them from the liquid.
    Found op http://www.chemicalglossary.net/definition/764-Filter

  5. Filter
    A frequency sensitive network, consisting normally of inductors and capacitors, that attenuates noise and ripple components of a DC rectified output, or EMI components which might affect an input supply
    Found op http://www.albacom.co.uk/Web/Site/defence/def_pow_glossary.html

  6. Filter
    The name for any device that imposes a time constant on or removes harmonics or disturbances from a signal. Current common usage is for a device that is installed on the a.c. supply to a drive for the purposes of E.M.C. noise immunity and suppression.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20823

  7. Filter
    Creative effects applied with an illustration program to selectively emphasise or de-emphasise all or portions of an image. Filters can be used to sharpen or blur images or apply special effects. Filters also allow text and graphic images to look like they were created using textured backgrounds or ...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20829

  8. Filter
    An electrical circuit that passes frequencies within a specified frequency band and attenuates signals that fall outside of that frequency band.
    Found op http://www.flowmeterdirectory.com/flowmeter_technical_glossary/flowmeter_te

  9. Filter
    A colored piece of glass or other transparent material used over the lens to emphasize, eliminate, or change the color or density (ND) of the entire scene or certain areas within a scene. Also see 'colour temperature', 'UV'. Technically, it explained as a piece of material which restricts the transm...
    Found op http://www.rodsmith.org.uk/photographic%20glossary/rods%20photographic%20gl

  10. filter
    A quick way to select records.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  11. Filter
    Fil'ter noun [ French filtre , the same word as feutre felt, Late Latin filtrum , feltrum , felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See Feuter .] Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charco...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/29

  12. Filter
    Fil'ter transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Filtered ; present participle & verbal noun Filtering ] [ Confer French filter . See Filter , noun
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/29

  13. Filter
    Fil'ter intransitive verb To pass through a filter; to percolate.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/29

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