| inglese > italiano | |
| filter | |
| 1. sost. filtro | |
| inglese > inglese | |
| filter | |
| 1. subst. 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. |  |
| 2. subst. Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies. |  |
| 3. subst. Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate. |  |
| He runs an email filter to catch the junk mail. |  |
| 4. subst. (figurative) self-restraint in speech. |  |
| He's got no filter, and he's always offending people as a result. |  |
| 5. subst. (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets). |  |
| The collection of cofinite subsets of ℝ is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set. |  |
| If (1) the universal set (here, the set of natural numbers) were called a "large" set, (2) the superset of any "large" set were also a "large" set, and (3) the intersection of a pair of "large" |  |
| 6. v. To sort, sift, or isolate. |  |
| 7. v. To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused. |  |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter. |  |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time. |  |
| 10. v. (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road |  |
| italiano > inglese | |
| filtro | |
| 1. subst. filter |  |
| 2. subst. potion, philtre |  |