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From Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition) (2003-11-10) | Glossary for this source

transformation applied to an array of scanlines with the aim of improving their compressibility. PNG uses only lossless (reversible) filter algorithms.
filter expression

From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A filter expression consists simply of a primary expression followed by zero or more predicates. The result of the filter expression consists of the items returned by the primary expression, filtered by applying each predicate in turn, working from left to right.
filter expression

From XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A filter expression consists simply of a primary expression followed by zero or more predicates. The result of the filter expression consists of the items returned by the primary expression, filtered by applying each predicate in turn, working from left to right.
filtering

From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source

The setting up of criteria to select a subset of data from a broad stream of it. Filtering information is essential for everyone in daily life. Filtering by parents of small children may be wise. Filtering by others- ISPs or governments- is bad, and is called censorship.

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