overfilter

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English

Etymology

From over- +‎ filter.

Verb

overfilter (third-person singular simple present overfilters, present participle overfiltering, simple past and past participle overfiltered)

  1. To subject to overfiltration.

Noun

overfilter (plural overfilters)

  1. (signal processing) A morphological filter (idempotent operator) whose image is a superset of the domain.
    • 1999, Edward R. Dougherty, Jaakko Astola, Nonlinear Filters for Image Processing, page 180:
      It is clear that overfilters and underfilters are dual in the sense of the duality principle.

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