Definition of Filter bed

1. Noun. Filter consisting of a layer of sand or gravel for filtering water.

Generic synonyms: Filter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Filter Bed

filovaricosis
filoviridae
filoviridae infections
filovirus
filovirus infections
filoviruses
fils
filst
filsten
filter
filter-feeder
filter-feeders
filter-tipped
filter-tipped cigarette
filter bank
filter bed (current term)
filter down
filter fabric
filter feeder
filter feeders
filter funnel
filter funnels
filter lane
filter lanes
filter out
filter paper
filter sterilisation
filter tip
filter up
filterabilities

Literary usage of Filter bed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1918)
"The filtering area should be computed on the upper surface of the filter bed, as the latter lies during normal filtering operation, and no attention should ..."

2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"Details of filter bed.—The bed of a slow sand filter suitable for general ... The coarse gravel at the bottom of a filter bed has no effect in the process ..."

3. Mechanics of the Household: A Course of Study Devoted to Domestic Machinery by Edward Spencer Keene (1918)
"This is known as a dosage tank because periodically a dose of the effluent is discharged into the filter bed. The volume discharged is sufficient to fill ..."

4. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"For thü sake of expressing the case numerically we will assume that we have a filter bed of three acres area, the sand in which is 50in. deep, ..."

5. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"The entire filtering surface is divided into units known as filter-bed?. The size of each filter-bed has grown with the development of the art. ..."

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