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просе́ивание — meaning in English

proseivaniye

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English meaning

  • sieve noun A kitchen tool with a mesh bottom used to separate larger pieces from smaller ones or to drain liquid from solids.

Senses

просе́ивание is used for these senses in English:

  • sieve A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.

sieve — full definition

  1. noun A kitchen tool with a mesh bottom used to separate larger pieces from smaller ones or to drain liquid from solids.
  2. noun Something, or someone, that lets too much through — a poor filter, especially for secrets or memory.
  3. verb To pass something through a sieve; to sift or strain.

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