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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
  • Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
  • A proper subset of a poset ''A'', which subset includes an element less than both of every pair of its members, and includes every element more than each of its members.
  • Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
  • intransitive To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
  • intransitive To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
  • transitive To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
  • transitive To sort, sift, or isolate.

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