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Definition of 'sieve'

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A device to , in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
    • Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
  • A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
  • * {{quote-web
    • | year = 2010 | author = Luke Mastin | title = 20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS - ROBINSON AND MATIYASEVICH | site = www.storyofmathematics.com | url = http://www.storyofmathematics.com/20th_robinson.html | accessdate = 2013-09-08 }}
    Among, [sic ] his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve ” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.
    Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
  • (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.
    • (Simmonds)

    Derived terms

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    Verb

    (siev)
  • To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

    • Similar to 'sieve'

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