SLOW SAND FILTRATION

Meaning of SLOW SAND FILTRATION in English

Passage of raw water through a bed of sand at low velocity, resulting in substantial removal of chemical and biological contaminants.

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FILTRATION — n filtration
Interlingua English vocab
FILTRATION — noun Date: 1605 the process of filtering, the process of passing through or as if through a filter
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
SAND — I Mineral, rock, or soil particles that are 0. 0008–0.08 in. (0.02–2 mm) in diameter. Most rock-forming minerals are found …
Английский словарь Британика
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
SAND — I. ˈsand, ˈsaa(ə)nd noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English sond, sand, from Old English; akin to Old High German …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FILTRATION — fil.ˈtrāshən noun ( -s ) 1. : the process of filtering 2. : the process of passing through or as …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FILTRATION — (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
Английский словарь Webster
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SAND — — sandable , adj. — sandless , adj. — sandlike , adj. /sand/ , n. 1. the more or less …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FILTRATION — n. process of filtering, process of passing through a filter, purification
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SLOW — I. ˈslō adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English slāw; akin to Old High German slēo dull Date: before 12th …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SAND — I. ˈsand noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German sant sand, Latin sabulum, Greek psammos …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FILTRATION — noun Date: 1605 1. : the process of filtering 2. : the process of passing through or as if through …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
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Webster English vocab
SAND — noun courage; pluck; grit. 2. sand ·vt to drive upon the sand. 3. sand ·noun a single particle of such …
Webster English vocab
FILTRATION — noun the act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
Webster English vocab
SLOW — [slow] adj [ME, fr. OE slaw; akin to OHG sleo dull] (bef. 12c) 1 a: mentally dull: stupid "a ~ …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SAND — [sand] n [ME, fr. OE; akin to OHG sant sand, L sabulum, Gk psammos] (bef. 12c) 1 a: a loose …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FILTRATION — [fil.tra.tion] n (1605) 1: the process of filtering 2: the process of passing through or as if through a filter; …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SAND — sand BrE AmE sænd ▷ sanded ˈsænd ɪd -əd ▷ sanding ˈsænd ɪŋ ▷ sands sændz ▶ ˈ sand ˌ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
FILTRATION — filtration BrE AmE fɪl ˈtreɪʃ ə n ▷ filtration|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SLOW — / sləʊ; NAmE sloʊ/ adjective , adverb , verb ■ adjective ( slow·er , slow·est ) NOT FAST 1. not …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SAND — / sænd; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ U ] a substance that consists of very small …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FILTRATION — / fɪlˈtreɪʃn; NAmE / noun [ U ] ( chemistry ) the process of filtering a liquid or gas
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SLOW — I. slow 1 S2 W2 /sləʊ $ sloʊ/ BrE AmE adjective ( comparative slower , superlative slowest ) [ Language: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SAND — I. sand 1 S3 W3 /sænd/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ] 1 . [uncountable] a substance consisting …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FILTRATION — fil ‧ tra ‧ tion /fɪlˈtreɪʃ ə n/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable] the process of cleaning a liquid by passing …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SLOW — adj., adv., & v. --adj. 1 a taking a relatively long time to do a thing or cover a distance …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SAND — n. & v. --n. 1 a loose granular substance resulting from the wearing down of esp. siliceous rocks and found …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SLOW — adj., adv., & v. adj. 1 a taking a relatively long time to do a thing or cover a distance …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SAND — n. & v. n. 1 a loose granular substance resulting from the wearing down of esp. siliceous rocks and found …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SLOW — adj., adv., & v. --adj. 1. a taking a relatively long time to do a thing or cover a distance …
Oxford English vocab
SAND — n. & v. --n. 1. a loose granular substance resulting from the wearing down of esp. siliceous rocks and found …
Oxford English vocab
SLOW — ( slower, slowest, slows, slowing, slowed) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SAND — ( sands, sanding, sanded) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Sand is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FILTRATION — Filtration is the process of filtering a substance. This enzyme would make the filtration of beer easier. ...water filtration systems. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FILTRATION — Filtration is the process of filtering a substance. This enzyme would make the ~ of beer easier. ...water ~ systems. …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SLOW — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a car slows down ▪ The car slowed down and stopped outside our house. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SAND — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES gravel/sand/chalk pit sand bar sand dune sand fly COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE coarse …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FILTRATION — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE biological ▪ Without oxygen Biological filtration ceases leading to increase in Ammonia/Nitrite levels. ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SLOW — [verb]To slow is to reduce speed or activity.All the cars have to slow at the bend. [I]The traffic slowed to …
Cambridge English vocab
SAND — (SMALL GRAINS) [noun] [U] - (a mass of) very small grains which used to be rock and which form deserts …
Cambridge English vocab
FILTRATION — [noun] [U]a filtration unit/plant (= place for filtering)The technology exists to remove all of these contaminants through filtration (= the …
Cambridge English vocab
SAND — n. black sand Great Sand Dunes National Monument Sand Creek Massacre sand dollar sand dune sand flea sand fly sand …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FILTRATION — Synonyms and related words : bolting, clarification, colature, destructive distillation, distillation, edulcoration, effusion, elution, elutriation, essentialization, excretion, exfiltration, extraction, extravasation, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SLOW — adj. slow up slow down slow coach slow witted
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
SLOW — adj. Function: adjective 1 Synonyms: RETARDED , backward, dim-witted, dull, feebleminded, half-witted, imbecile, moronic, simple, slow-witted Related Words: limited; ||dunch …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
FILTRATION — n. Filtering, straining.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
SLOW — adjective 1. Synonyms: retarded , backward, dim-witted, dull, feebleminded, half-witted, imbecile, moronic, simple, slow-witted Related Word: limited; ||dunch 2. moving, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
SLOW — I. verb ADVERB ▪ considerably , dramatically , markedly , noticeably , sharply , significantly ▪ Sales have ~ed down …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SLOW — INDEX: 1. moving slowly or doing something slowly 2. happening or changing slowly 3. to do something slowly 4. to …
Longman Activator English vocab
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Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
FILTRATION — Separation of a solid and a liquid by using a porous substance that only lets the liquid pass through.
Environmental Engineering English vocabulary
SLOW — adj. 1 lagging, laggard, dawdling, sluggish, sluggard(ly), slow-moving, leaden, ponderous, unhurried, plodding, snail-like, tortoise-like, torpid, leaden-footed, creeping, crawling; deliberate, slow-paced, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
FILTRATION — 1) общ. фильтрование, фильтрация, очистка 2) - filtering
Англо-Русский толковый словарь
SLOW — 1. прил. 1) медленный, тихий a slow train ≈ поезд, идущий с малой скоростью Syn : dilatory, gradual, laggard, leisurely, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SAND — 1. сущ. 1) а) песок; гравий to scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew sand ≈ насыпать песок, посыпать песком coarse sand ≈ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FILTRATION — сущ. фильтрация фильтрация, фильтрование
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SLOW — slow.ogg 1. sləʋ n разг. 1. 1> копуша, копун; копунья 2> лентяй 2. кляча 3. слабо поданный мяч ( крикет …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SAND — sand.ogg 1. sænd n 1. 1> песок, гравий fine coarse, sea sand - тонкий крупный, морской песок a grain of …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SAND — 1) песок 2) нефтеносный песок, нефтеносный песчаный пласт 3) песчаный грунт 4) формовочная смесь 5) шлифовать песком 6) зачищать шлифовальной …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
FILTRATION — фильтрация, фильтрование; водоотдача ( бурового раствора на водной основе ) filtration in fluidized bed — отмучивание в псевдоожиженном слое - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
SAND — 1) песок 2) нефтеносный песок, нефтеносный песчаный пласт 3) песчаный грунт 4) формовочная смесь 5) шлифовать песком 6) зачищать шлифовальной шкуркой 7) мн. ч. песчаная отмель • - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО

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