underfilter
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A morphological filter (idempotent operator) whose image is a subset of the domain.
noun
A filter that is positioned beneath something.
verb
To filter insufficiently.
Example Sentences
- "It is clear that overfilters and underfilters are dual in the sense of the duality principle."
- "The paving downstream consisted of 18x18x8-inch blocks laid on edge over a brick base which in turn was underlain with a gravel or brick chip filter. Since there was some controversy as to whether an underfilter was necessary, the first test was made with the filter omited.^([sic])"
- "Since there is no underfilter, the top flow line emerges on the downstream slope."
- "A single sheet of filter paper is used as an underfilter."
- "In addition, the flow from the underfilter, which had previously been clear, became cloudy, indicating that the filter had failed to block particles from the core."
- "It is not possible to overfilter your tank but marine aquaria are frequently underfiltered."