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Filtrate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FIL'TRATE, v.t. [See Filter.]
To filter; to defecate, as liquor, by straining or percolation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter v
1: remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities" [syn: filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter out]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1846 fluid that has passed through a filter

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. filter. --n. filtered liquid. Derivatives: filtration n. Etymology: mod.L filtrare (as FILTER)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Filtrate Fil"trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filtrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Filtrating. ] [Cf. LL. filtrare. See Filter.] To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation. --Arbuthnot.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Filtrate Fil"trate, n. That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.