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filtrate

/ˈfɪltɹeɪt/

filtrate noun: the liquid or solution that has passed through a filter, and which has been separated from other fractions of the original material.

Noun

filtrate (plural filtrates)

  1. The liquid or solution that has passed through a filter, and which has been separated from other fractions of the original material.

Verb

filtrate (third-person singular simple present filtrates, present participle filtrating, simple past and past participle filtrated)

  1. To filter.
    • Ashes boil'd in Water; and filtrated1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC

filtrate meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Malay

filtrate in Tamil

வடி கட்டு, வடிகட்டிய நீர்ம்ம், சல்லடைத் துளையில் நீக்கப்படக்கூடிய, வடிகட்டிய நீர்மம், வடிநீர்மம், வடிமம்

filtrate in Kannada

ಬಸಿಗಟ್ಟು, ಒಡಿಗಟ್ಟು

filtrate in Tagalog

Translations
sinala

filtrate in Malay

Translations
turasan
More languagesFewer languages
filtrate in Indonesian
filtrat

Forms of filtrate

Noun
pluralfiltrates
Verb
third-person singular presentfiltrates
present participlefiltrating
past participlefiltrated
pastfiltrated

Origin of filtrate

From the substantivation of New Latin filtrātus (“filtered”) past perfect participle of filtrō (“to filter”). Equivalent to filter (the verb) + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

From New Latin filtrō (“to filter”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Words formed from filtrate

Phrases with filtrate

Questions about filtrate

What does filtrate mean?
Filtrate means the liquid or solution that has passed through a filter, and which has been separated from other fractions of the original material.
What is filtrate in Tamil?
Filtrate in Tamil is வடி கட்டு, வடிகட்டிய நீர்ம்ம், சல்லடைத் துளையில் நீக்கப்படக்கூடிய. See Filtrate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is filtrate?
Filtrate can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce filtrate?
Filtrate is pronounced /ˈfɪltɹeɪt/.
What is the plural of filtrate?
The plural of filtrate is filtrates.

Words near filtrate in the dictionary

  1. filtrabilities
  2. filtrability
  3. filtrable
  4. filtrand
  5. filtrands
  6. filtrate
  7. filtrate tracer
  8. filtrate tracers
  9. filtrated
  10. filtrates
  11. filtrating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filtrate (page history and authors); filtrate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); filtrate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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