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Definition of Filter out
1. Verb. Remove by passing through a filter. "Filter out the impurities"
Generic synonyms: Separate
Derivative terms: Filter, Filtrate, Filtration, Filtration, Filter, Filtrate, Strainer
Definition of Filter out
1. Verb. (transitive) To selectively remove part of something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filter Out
Literary usage of Filter out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"If boiling out fails to clear the filter, the filtering diaphragms must be removed
and new ones substituted. To do this, first of all cut the filter out of ..."
2. Rapid Methods for the Chemical Analysis of Special Steels: Steel-making by Charles Morris Johnson (1914)
"After the evaporation to dryness the residue is redissolved in HC1; add water;
filter out the tungsten; wash it as before; evaporate the filtrate and ..."
3. A Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis for the Use of Students by Frederick Augustus Cairns, Elwyn Waller (1896)
"filter out and weigh the silica; precipitate the alumina with ammonia, and
determine it as usual. Calculate the alumina to clay (Als(SiOs)s). ..."
4. The Chemistry of the Several Natural and Artificial Heterogeneous Compounds by Simeon Shaw (1900)
"To the liquid add test 2, and filter out base 9, which treat similarly. Or, in
test 26 digest the precipitate one hour ; dilute four bulks ; add test 3 ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1912)
"filter out the Sr(NO,)2 precipitate, wash it once with a little cold water, pour
a portion of 3-5 cc. HC1 (1.06) two or three times through the filter, ..."
6. A Course of Instruction and System Procedure in the Qualitativ[e] Chemical by Arthur Amos Noyes (1913)
"filter out the NiS precipitate, and boil the filtrate. Record the results of all
these tests in a single table, so as to show at a glance how each element ..."
7. Purification of the Washington Water Supply: An Inquiry Held by Direction of by Charles Moore, James McMillan (1901)
"Do you think it is as necessary to filter out all these nonpathogenic organisms
as it is to filter out all the others ? Mr. WESTON. ..."
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