Sieving

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of passing something through a sieve.
  2. 2
    Material that has passed through a sieve.

    "The sievings retained on different sieves are washed into separate Petri dishes for further observations or purification by sucrose centrifugation."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of sieve form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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clarificationdistillationextractionfilteringfiltrationpercolation

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"The sievings retained on different sieves are washed into separate Petri dishes for further observations or purification by sucrose centrifugation."

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