英语词汇“filtration”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

filter /filˈtər/

noun

An apparatus for purifying a fluid of solid matter by pouring it through porous material

A device for wholly or partly eliminating undesirable frequencies from light, radio or electric currents

A filter tip (qv below)

A program, or part of one, that alters data systematically (computing)

(at a road junction) an auxiliary traffic light in the form of a green arrow which allows one lane of traffic to move while the main stream is held up

transitive verb

To pass through a filter

To separate by a filter (esp with out)

intransitive verb

To pass through a filter

To percolate

To pass gradually and dispersedly through obstacles

To join gradually a stream of traffic

(of a lane of traffic) to move in the direction specified by the filter

To become known gradually (figurative)

ORIGIN: OFr filtre, from LL fīltrum felt

filterabilˈity or filtrabilˈity noun

filˈterable or filˈtrable adjective

Able to pass through a filter (see filter-passer below)

Capable of being filtered

filˈtrate transitive verb and intransitive verb

To filter or percolate

noun

A filtered liquid

filtrāˈtion noun

(an) act or process of filtering

filter bed noun

A bed of sand, gravel, clinker, etc used for filtering water or sewage

filter cake noun

A mass of material trapped by a filter

filter coffee noun

Coffee made by allowing water to pass through a filter paper containing ground coffee

filˈter-feeder noun

An aquatic animal that filters its food from the water

filˈter-feeding noun

filter paper noun

Porous paper for use in filtering

filˈter-passer or filterable virus noun

Terms used formerly for a virus in the sense of submicroscopic disease agent

filter tip noun

A cigarette with a filter at the mouth end, to reduce the smoker's ingestion of impurities

filˈter-tippedˈ adjective