filtration

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filtration

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French filtration.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fɪlˈtɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

filtration (countable and uncountable, plural filtrations)

1. The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
2. (mathematics, set theory, probability theory) A totally ordered collection of subsets.

Derived terms

• autofiltration
• bifiltration
• biofiltration
• cryofiltration
• defiltration
• diafiltration
• electrofiltration
• enfiltration
• haemofiltration
• hemofiltration
• hyperfiltration
• hypofiltration
• immunofiltration
• leucofiltration
• leukofiltration
• membrane filtration
• microfiltration
• mycofiltration
• nanofiltration
• normofiltration
• overfiltration
• postfiltration
• prefiltration
• refiltration
• ultrafiltration

Related terms

• exfiltration
• infiltration

Translations

filtering

Arabic: تَرْشِيح m (taršīḥ) Belarusian: фільтра́цыя f (filʹtrácyja) Bulgarian: филтра́ция (bg) f (filtrácija) Chinese: Mandarin: 過濾 / 过滤 (zh) (guòlǜ) Czech: filtrace f Dutch: filtratie (nl) f French: filtration (fr) f Georgian: ფილტრაცია (pilṭracia) German: Filtrierung f Greek: διήθηση (el) f (diíthisi) Ancient: διήθησις f (diḗthēsis) Indonesian: filtrasi (id) Italian: filtraggio (it) m Japanese: 濾過 (ja) (ろか, roka), 沪過 (ろか, roka) Korean: 여과(濾過) (yeogwa), 려과(濾過) (ko) (ryeogwa) (North Korea) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: parzûnkirin (ku) Macedonian: филтрација f (filtracija) Malay: penapisan Polish: filtracja f Romanian: filtrare (ro) f, filtraj (ro) n Russian: фильтра́ция (ru) f (filʹtrácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: филтра́ција f Roman: filtrácija (sh) f Slovak: filtrácia f Slovene: filtracija f Spanish: filtración (es) Swedish: filtration (sv) c Tagalog: pagsasala Ukrainian: фільтра́ція f (filʹtrácija)

Anagrams

• flirtation, triflation

French

Etymology

From filtrer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fil.tʁa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

filtration f (plural filtrations)

1. filtration

Related terms

• filtrage

Further reading

• “filtration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.