2. Verb. (third-person singular of filter) ¹
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Definition of Filters
1. filter [v] - See also: filter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filters
Literary usage of Filters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"There are two main types of household filters : one made of unglazed porcelain
... The Berkefeld filters of diatomaceous earth are more porous than the ..."
2. Public Water-supplies: Requirements, Resources, and the Construction of Works by Frederick Eugene Turneaure, Harry Luman Russell, Daniel Webster Mead (1908)
"Special Forms of filters. — Besides the two principal types of sand filters
discussed in the preceding chapters, various special forms of sand filters, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by New Jersey Health and Sanitary Association, Council for High Blood Pressure Research (American Heart Association) (1904)
"Where an effluent of high bacterial purity is not necessary, coarse grain filters
give adequate results, so far as a non-putrescible effluent .is concerned. ..."
4. The Filtration of Public Water-supplies by Allen Hazen (1908)
"COVERS FOR filters. The filters in England and Holland are built open, ...
In Germany the filters first built were also open, but in the colder climates ..."
5. The Principles of Hygiene: A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians, and by David Hendricks Bergey (1904)
"Upon the completion of the preliminary filters at Lower Rox- borough about 4000000
... Sponge in Preliminary filters.—Concerning the layer of sponge in the ..."
6. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1910)
"3065 A. The New Unsubmerged Sand filters of Miquel and Mouchet (Les nouveaux ...
Discusses the efficiency of trickling filters, gives results of tests, ..."
7. Sewerage and Sewage Disposal: A Textbook by Leonard Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1922)
"A pinkish, slimy organic growth on the surface of several American trickling
filters has been eliminated by applying a strong solution of ..."
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