overfilter

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verb

To subject to overfiltration.

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Meanings

verboverfilter (third-person singular simple present overfilters, present participle overfiltering, simple past and past participle overfiltered)

present singular third person overfilters · participle present overfiltering · participle past overfiltered · past overfiltered

  1. To subject to overfiltration.
nounoverfilter (plural overfilters)

plural overfilters

  1. computingA morphological filter (idempotent operator) whose image is a superset of the domain.

    It is clear that overfilters and underfilters are dual in the sense of the duality principle.

    1999, Edward R. Dougherty, Jaakko Astola, Nonlinear Filters for Image Processing, page 180

Origin

From over- + filter.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overfilter,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overfilter.

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