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overfilter

overfilter verb: to subject to overfiltration.

Verb

overfilter (third-person singular simple present overfilters, present participle overfiltering, simple past and past participle overfiltered)

  1. To subject to overfiltration.

Noun

overfilter (plural overfilters)

  1. A morphological filter (idempotent operator) whose image is a superset of the domain.
    • It is clear that overfilters and underfilters are dual in the sense of the duality principle.1999, Edward R. Dougherty, Jaakko Astola, Nonlinear Filters for Image Processing, page 180

Forms of overfilter

Verb
third-person singular presentoverfilters
present participleoverfiltering
past participleoverfiltered
pastoverfiltered
Noun
pluraloverfilters

Origin of overfilter

From over- + filter.

Questions about overfilter

What does overfilter mean?
Overfilter means to subject to overfiltration.
What part of speech is overfilter?
Overfilter can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of overfilter?
The past tense of overfilter is overfiltered.

Words near overfilter in the dictionary

  1. overfierce
  2. overfill
  3. overfilled
  4. overfilling
  5. overfills
  6. overfilter
  7. overfiltered
  8. overfiltering
  9. overfilters
  10. overfiltration
  11. overfinance

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