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filtration

US/fɪlˈtɹeɪʃən/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,884 of 15,258leans written

Filtration is separating solids from a liquid by passing it through a mesh. Water filtration, a filtration plant, filtration system.

It removes what is suspended rather than what is dissolved, which is why filtered water still contains salts and why filtration alone does not make water safe. In the kidney, filtration is the first step of making urine.

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Definitions of filtration

  1. 1nounfiltrationSeparating solids from a liquid by passing it through a mesh.B2+

    “The water passes through a filtration system that removes sand and dirt.”

filtration is a process.

Where it comes from

  1. French

    filtration

  2. English, today

    filtration

Borrowed from French filtration.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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filtration in the wild

  • Each nephron begins with a filtration component that filters the blood entering the kidney.

    Renal physiology

  • Blood is filtered through these slits, each known as a filtration slit, slit diaphragm, or slit pore.

    Podocyte

  • The filtration fraction, therefore, represents the proportion of the fluid reaching the kidneys that passes into the renal tubules.

    Filtration fraction

  • Loop diuretics and thiazide diuretics decrease filtration fraction.

    Filtration fraction

  • Many complaints of bitter taste are traced to this error in the use of the filtration method.

    All about coffee· William H. Ukers

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Related words

  • filtration system