filtering

English

Verb

filtering

1. present participle and gerund of filter

Noun

filtering (countable and uncountable, plural filterings)

1. The process of passing something through a filter.
2. Something that passes through a filter.
   • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia:

     the filterings from the subsoils

   • 2006, Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully, page 146:

     Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight […]

Synonyms

• filtrate

Derived terms

• lane filtering

Translations

passing something through a filter

• Greek: ήθηση f (íthisi)

filtrate — see filtrate

Anagrams

• liftering, relifting