ALL meanings of filterer
fil·ter
F f - noun filterer any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids. 1
- noun filterer any device, as a tank or tube, containing such a substance for filtering. 1
- noun filterer any of various analogous devices, as for removing dust from air or impurities from tobacco smoke, or for eliminating certain kinds of light rays. 1
- noun filterer something that works like a filter, as by removing, blocking, or separating out certain elements: Kids often talk without a filter. Events can be distorted through the filter of memory. 1
- noun filterer Informal. a filter-tipped cigarette or cigar. 1
- noun filterer Photography. a lens screen of dyed gelatin or glass for controlling the rendering of color or for diminishing the intensity of light. 1
- noun filterer Electronics, Physics. a circuit or device that passes certain frequencies and blocks others. 1
- noun filterer Mathematics. a collection of subsets of a topological space, having the properties that the intersection of two subsets in the collection is a subset in the collection and that any set containing a subset in the collection is in the collection. 1
- verb with object filterer to remove by the action of a filter. 1
- verb with object filterer to act as a filter for; to slow or partially obstruct the passage of: The thick leaves filtered the sunlight. 1
- verb with object filterer to pass through or as through a filter. 1
- verb without object filterer to pass or slip through slowly, as through an obstruction or a filter: Enemy agents managed to filter into the embattled country. 1
- noun filterer A person who, or device that, filters. 0
- noun filterer a thing which filters or acts as a filter 0