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Plural of filter

regular plural

The plural of filter is filters.

Forms of filter

Singularfilter /ˈfɪltə/
Pluralfilters
Countablecountable

Filters in a sentence

  • That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
  • If the local filters conflict with the global filters, the global filters always win.From the entry win
  • My mailbox has remained unspammed for years thanks to antispam filters.From the entry unspammed
  • The brain automatically filters out useless information.From the entry filter out
  • Filters and angles can help you look your best, but catfishing and hatfishing are real things.2018 February 10, Lady Marmalade, “Things you probably shouldn't mention on your Tinder profile”, in Gauntlet, page 41, column 2. From the entry hatfish

Meaning of filter

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
  3. noun Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.

Full definition of filter

Questions about the plural of filter

What is the plural of filter?
The plural of filter is filters.
Is filter countable?
Filter is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filter (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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