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FILTER PAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does filter paper mean? 

FILTER PAPER (noun)
  The noun FILTER PAPER has 1 sense:

1. a porous unsized paper used for filteringplay

  Familiarity information: FILTER PAPER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FILTER PAPER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A porous unsized paper used for filtering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("filter paper" is a kind of...):

paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)


 Context examples 


A method to determine microbial susceptibility to antibiotics in which filter paper disks containing known concentrations of antibiotics are placed on the agar surface that has been previously inoculated with the bacteria of interest.

(Disk Diffusion Method, NCI Thesaurus)



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