0 present participle of filter
2 to remove solids from liquids or gases, or to remove particular types of light, using special equipment:
The water is filtered to remove any impurities.
Devices in the two chimneys would filter (out) (= remove) radioactive dust.
The software is well suited to small mobile phone screens because it filters out unnecessary information.
In addition to the reverberant field and low-pass filtering of the source, the sound-object's image size has been reduced.
By this time, however, the news was filtering out.
Secondary activators also facilitate filtering out the irrelevant portions of text.
That is, what we are filtering is source events, passing on only those that carry an even parameter.
It finishes with techniques for making the translation of the unification grammar more efficient by filtering out redundant rules.
This has the advantage of filtering much of the noise from the engine level and doing sophisticated information consolidation before populating a relational database.
This observation provides us with a simple mechanism for filtering out unifications that cannot possibly succeed.
These filtering criteria are discussed in more detail in the experimental sections.
