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s | sieve |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun sieve is

a device to , in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

As a verb sieve is

to strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    sieve

    English

    (wikipedia sieve)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device to , in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
    • Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
  • A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , year = 2010 , author = Luke Mastin , title = 20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS - ROBINSON AND MATIYASEVICH , site = www.storyofmathematics.com , url = http://www.storyofmathematics.com/20th_robinson.html , accessdate = 2013-09-08 }}
    Among, [sic ] his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve ” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.
    Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
  • (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
    • (Simmonds)

    Derived terms

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    Verb

    (siev)
  • To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.