filtering

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of filter

plural filterings

1. countableuncountableThe process of passing something through a filter.
2. countableuncountableSomething that passes through a filter.

   the filterings from the subsoils

   1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia

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   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 […]

   2006, Christopher Rush, To Travel Hopefully, page 146