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Air Filter

Definition: Air Filter

Air Filter

Noun

1. Removes dust from air that passes through it.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Air Filter

DomainDefinitions

Environment

A purifying device for stopping all or part of gas mixing. Source: European Union. (references)
 Any method used to remove gases and particulates from the foundry environment and stack emission; it may be of cloth, fibres, liquid spray, electrostatic, sonic agglomerator, etc. Source: European Union. (references)

Personal Care & Hotels

A device designed for removing airborne solid or liquid particles. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Air Filter

Synonym: air cleaner (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Air Filter

English words defined with "air filter": filter tipVapor bath. (references)
Specialty definitions using "air filter": Air Binding, ASSEMBLER, CORNCOB PIPES, ASSEMBLER, FILTERS, AUTOMOBILE-SELF-SERVE-SERVICE-STATION ATTENDANT, AUTOMOBILE-SERVICE-STATION ATTENDANTbit setter, borer, stem, burner operator, Burt filterC.P. Hemborn dust extractor, CARBURETOR MECHANIC, carburetor repairer, cashier, automobile services, CENTRIFUGE OPERATOR, CHAR-FILTER-OPERATOR HELPER, clay burner, CLAY ROASTER, compressed-air-driven lamps, COOK, SYRUP MAKER, cooker, syrupdrier operator, dust chamber, dust collectorearth burnerfabric-type dust collector, FERMENTER, WINE, ferruler, filling-station attendant, filter-machine operator, FURNACE CLEANERgas tender, gasateria attendant, gas-station attendanthealth-physics technicianINCINERATOR OPERATOR II, INSPECTOR, FILTER TIP, inspector, plug seamLEAD-NITRATE PROCESSOR, lead-shop operatoroil winterizer, oil-moistened air filterpackaged air conditioner, Personal Air Samples, personnel monitor, PRECIPITATOR IRADIATION MONITOR, Ridgeway fiter, RIPENING-ROOM ATTENDANTSALEM 817 auxiliary filter, SALEM 818 auxiliary filter, SALEM 824 filter, sauce maker, self-contained air conditioning unit, service-station attendant, SILICA-FILTER OPERATOR, station attendant, stem assembler, stem setter, sugar-tube method, SYRUP MAKERvacuum filter, VINEGAR MAKERWELDING-MACHINE OPERATOR, ELECTRON BEAM, WINTERIZER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Air Filter

DomainTitle

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

  • Briggs & Stratton 5001B Air Filter for 2-to-5HP Crankshaft Engines (reference)

  • CWR ENVIRONMENTAL C.A.R.E. 2000 HEPA Air Filter with UV Lamps (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Air Filter

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Non-Fiction Usage: Air Filter

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Major U.S. suppliers include Ceilcote, American Air Filter, Farr, and Keene. (references)

American Air filter is well introduced in the Market; other brands are Mitsubishi and Shimazu (Japan), Ridel (Germany). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Air Filter

Expression using "air filter": intake air filter. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Air Filter

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

air filter

1,479

kn air filter

1,388

electronic air filter

205

k and n air filter

151

home air filter

149

electrostatic air filter

139

furnace air filter

125

hepa air filter

114

american air filter

107

air filter allergy

105

honeywell air filter

101

auto air filter

78

car air filter

75

motorcycle air filter

65

performance air filter

54

automotive air filter

54

frame air filter

52

allergy free air filter

47

hvac air filter

46

replacement air filter

46
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Air Filter

Language Translations for "air filter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

støvfilter (dust arrester, dust filter, filter, screen, strainer), luftrenser (air scrubber, gaz purifier), luftfilter (air cleaner, air scrubber, gaz purifier). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

luchtfilter (air cleaner, air-filter). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pölysuodatin, kaasunpuhdistin (air scrubber, gaz purifier), ilmansuodatin (air cleaner). (various references)

   

French

  

filtre air (air cleaner, air-filter), épurateur d'air (air cleaner), épurateur (air scrubber). (various references)

   

German

  

Staubfilter, Luftfilter (air cleaner), Gasreiniger (air scrubber, gaz purifier). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μηχάνημα καθαρισμού αέρα (air scrubber, gaz purifier), φίλτρο αέρα, φίλτρο αέρος (air cleaner), αεροκαθαριστήρασ (air cleaner). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

légszűrőbetét, légszűrő. (various references)

   

Italian

  

filtro d'aria (air cleaner). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

airay ilterfay

   

Portuguese

  

filtro de ar (air cleaner). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

filtro de aire (air scrubber, gaz purifier), filtro aéreo, depurador de gases (air scrubber, gaz purifier), depurador de aire (air cleaner). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lufttvättare (air scrubber, gaz purifier), luftfilter (air cleaner). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Air Filter

Misspellings

"Air Filter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: airfilter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Air Filter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-i-l-r-r-t"

-1 letter: flirtier, ratifier.

-2 letters: airlift, filiate, firelit, flirter, frailer, retrial, trailer, trifler.

-3 letters: airier, artier, fairer, falter, ferial, fetial, filter, frater, irater, irreal, lifter, rafter, railer, retail, retial, retral, rifler, tailer, trifle.

-4 letters: afire, afrit, after, airer, alert, alter, ariel, artel, farer, farle, feral, feria, fetal, filar, filer, filet, firer, flair, flare, flier, flirt, flite, frail, friar, frier, irate, later, lifer, litai, liter, litre, ratel, rater, refit, relit, retia, rifer, rifle, taler, tarre, telia, terai, terra, tiler, trail, trial, trier.

-5 letters: airt, alef, alif, alit, aril, earl, fail, fair, fare, farl, fart, fate, feal, fear, feat, felt, feta, fiar, fiat, fila, file, fire, flat, flea, flit, frae, frat, fret, frit, ilea, ilia, lair, lari, late, lati, leaf, lear, left, liar, lief, lier, life, lift, lira, lire, liri, lite, raft, rail, rale, rare, rate, real, rear, reft, reif, rial, riel, rife, rift, rile, rite, tael, tail, tale, tali, tare, teal, tear, tela, tier, tile, tire, tirl, tref.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-i-l-r-r-t"
 

+3 letters: fritillaries, terrifically.

 

+4 letters: defibrillator, preferability, proliferating, proliferation, proliferative, reformability.

 

+5 letters: defibrillators, interferential, irrefutability, performability, proliferations, referentiality, refrangibility.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Air Filter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 69 72      46 69 6C 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000110 01101001 01101100 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#105 &#114 &#32 &#70 &#105 &#108 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0069 0072      0046 0069 006C 0074 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3575842407578867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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