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say it: fil-TRAY-shuhn
filtration is a noun meaning "the process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium
the act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for filtration come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.