• Filtering

    Verb

    1. Present participle of filter

    Full definition of filtering

    Noun

    filtering

    (plural filterings)
    1. Something that passes through a filter.
      • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædiathe filterings from the subsoils
      • 2006, Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully (page 146)Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight ...
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