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filtering

  1. present participle and gerund of filter

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filtering (countable and uncountable, plural filterings)

  1. The process of passing something through a filter.
  2. Something that passes through a filter.
    • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia:
      the filterings from the subsoils
    • 2006, Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully, page 146:
      Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight []

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