Selection vs Filter - What's the difference?
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The process or act of .
Something selected.
A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
A musical piece.
A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
Any item, mechanism, device or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
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(mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
To sort, sift, or isolate.
* This strainer should filter out the large particles.
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To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
* The leaves of the trees filtered the light.
To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
* The water filtered through the rock and soil.
To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
* The crowd filtered into the theater.
To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
* I can skip past all the traffic on my bike by filtering .
As nouns the difference between selection and filter
is that selection is the process or act of selecting while filter is a device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.As a verb filter is
to sort, sift, or isolate.selection
English
Noun
(en noun)- The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.
- My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafitte.
- I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
- For my next selection , I'll play ''Happy Birthday'' in F-sharp minor.
Derived terms
* ambidirectional selection * apostatic selection * artificial selection * asexual selection * background selection * balancing selection * compatibility selection * counterselection * deme selection * demic selection * directional selection * disruptive selection * diversifying selection * ecological selection * environmental selection * eugenic selection * fecundity selection * frequency-dependent selection * gametic selection * gene selection * genetic selection * genic selection * group selection * hierarchical selection * higher-level selection * individual selection * inevitable selection * interdeme selection * interdemic selection * intersexual selection * interspecies selection * intrademe selection * intrademic selection * intrasexual selection * intraspecies selection * kin selection * lower-level selection * multilevel selection (MLS) * natural selection * natural selectional * natural selectionary * negative selection * organismal selection * organismic selection * panselection * panselectionism * panselectionist * positive selection * purified selection * purifying selection * selectional * selectionary * selectionism * selectionist * selection rule * sexual selection * simultaneous selection * species selection * stabilising selection, stabilizing selection * strong selection * supraorgamismal selection * survival selection * theory of natural selection * unit of selection * viability selection * weak selectionSynonyms
* choice * (musical piece) number * (something selected) option * (musical piece) piece * (variety from larger collection) subsetExternal links
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English
Noun
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- The collection of cofinite subsets of ''?'' is a filter under inclusion: it includes the intersection of every pair of its members, and includes every superset of every cofinite set.
- If (1) the universal set (here, the set of natural numbers) were called a "large" set, (2) the superset of any "large" set were also a "large" set, and (3) the intersection of a pair of "large" sets were also a "large" set, then the set of all "large" sets would form a filter .