Filter

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Filter

Filter : சல்லடை

Filter : சல்லடை,வடிகட்ட,வடிகட்டி,வடிகட்டி,சல்லடை

Filter definition

Noun.

  1. Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.
  2. To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
  3. Same as Philter.

Intransitive verb. To pass through a filter; to percolate.