filter
nounid
2589·updated May 9, 2026verified
In Computing: a piece of software that transforms data in some way, such as removing unwanted spaces from text or formats it for use in another application.
polysemous
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Classifications
Entity Type
Control75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- alternatephrasing
- Filter
- plural
- filters
- possessive
- filter's
- pluralpossessive
- filters'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A filter is used to specify which packets will or will not be used. It can be used in sniffers to determine which packets get displayed, or by firewalls to determine which packets get blocked.
- §1
- In Computing: a piece of software that transforms data in some way, such as removing unwanted spaces from text or formats it for use in another application.
- §1
- device that removes something from whatever passes through it
- §2
- an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
- §1 · legacy_primary
- In Computing: a piece of software that transforms data in some way, such as removing unwanted spaces from text or formats it for use in another application.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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