filter press

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noun

: a filter consisting usually of a series of rigid corrugated plates with intervening filter medium (as cloth) assembled in a framework so that the suspension to be filtered can be forced under pressure into the assembled press and the solids can collect as cake between the plates see plate-and-frame filter

filter-press

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transitive verb

: to pass through a filter press

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filter press

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