Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To put or go through a filter.
- noun Material, especially liquid, that has passed through a filter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To filter; defecate, as liquor, by straining or percolation: also used figuratively.
- noun The liquid which has been passed through a filter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.
- noun That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration. Contrasted with
retentate , the material remaining on the filter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The liquid or solution that has passed through a
filter , and which has been separated from thefiltride . - verb To
filter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove by passing through a filter
- noun the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The filtrate is practically neutralized with NaOH.
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The clear filtrate is concentrated in vacuo to about 1/15 of its original volume.
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If dried starch grains are rubbed between two glass plates, the grains will be seen under the microscope to be fissured, and if then wetted and filtered, the filtrate will be a perfectly clear liquid showing a strong starch reaction with iodine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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The alumina is contained in the filtrate, which is acidified with hydrochloric acid and the alumina precipitated therefrom as hydrate with ammonia, as just described.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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Shuttling tumors from one bird to another, he began to pass the cells through a set of filters, a series of finer and finer cellular sieves, until the cells had been eliminated from the mix and all that was left was the filtrate derived from the cells.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Shuttling tumors from one bird to another, he began to pass the cells through a set of filters, a series of finer and finer cellular sieves, until the cells had been eliminated from the mix and all that was left was the filtrate derived from the cells.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Shuttling tumors from one bird to another, he began to pass the cells through a set of filters, a series of finer and finer cellular sieves, until the cells had been eliminated from the mix and all that was left was the filtrate derived from the cells.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Raw water flows along the length of the hollow fibres before being forced through the walls of the fibre to produce a filtrate virtually free of suspended solids.
Siemens' New Technology To Rid Nigeria Of Water-borne Diseases 2009
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In an independent experimental study of mumps, Wollstein used saliva filtrate from sick children and from soldiers in Army camp hospitals near New York City.
Martha Wollstein. 2009
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The vaccine is a cell-free filtrate vaccine, which means it contains no dead or live bacteria in the preparation.
Anthrax 2008
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