filtration
filtration Lexical Profile
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• noun
The physical or mechanical process of passing a liquid or gas through a porous medium to remove suspended solid particles or impurities.
"The municipal water treatment plant relies on multi-stage filtration to ensure the drinking supply is safe."
In mathematics, an indexed family of subobjects of a given algebraic or topological structure, or of sigma-algebras in probability theory, that is ordered by inclusion.
"In stochastic calculus, a natural filtration represents the accumulation of observable information up to a given point in time."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin filtratio, derived from filtrare ('to strain through felt'), ultimately from a West Germanic root akin to English felt, as early chemists used compressed felt to strain liquids.