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wordfilters

wordfilters is the plural of wordfilter.

Meaning of wordfilter

Noun

wordfilter (plural wordfilters)

  1. Software that monitors text input to chatrooms etc., deleting or modifying offensive language.
    • Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be...2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian

Questions about wordfilters

What is wordfilters the plural of?
Wordfilters is the plural of wordfilter.

Words near wordfilters in the dictionary

  1. wordfacts
  2. wordfast
  3. wordfest
  4. wordfests
  5. wordfilter
  6. wordfilters
  7. wordfinal
  8. wordfinder
  9. wordfinders
  10. wordfinding
  11. wordflow

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