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Filtration vs Filtering - What's the difference?

filtration | filtering |

As nouns the difference between filtration and filtering

is that filtration is the act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it while filtering is something that passes through a filter.

As a verb filtering is

present participle of lang=en.

filtration

English

(filtration)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    filtering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that passes through a filter.
  • * 1819 , Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia
    • the filterings from the subsoils
  • * 2006 , Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully (page 146)
    • Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight

    Synonyms

    * filtrate