"filter down" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-filter down.ogg [Australia] Forms: filters down [present, singular, third-person], filtering down [participle, present], filtered down [participle, past], filtered down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} filter down (third-person singular simple present filters down, present participle filtering down, simple past and past participle filtered down)
  1. Of a liquid; to move slowly down to lower substrate levels.
    Sense id: en-filter_down-en-verb-yKCGDu1v Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (down) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (down): 50 50
  2. (idiomatic) (by extension) Of information, or resources; to move slowly down to lower levels of an organisation, or population. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-filter_down-en-verb-tPi~V1~F Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (down) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (down): 50 50

Inflected forms

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