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nanofiltration

noun

nanofiltration is a noun meaning “Pressure-driven filtration through a membrane that removes particles of about two nanometres or larger” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-F-I-L-T-R-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nanofiltration is nanofiltrations.

What does nanofiltration mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Pressure-driven filtration through a membrane that removes particles of about two nanometres or larger

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of nanofiltration

  • nanofiltrations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is nanofiltration?

Nanofiltration appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does nanofiltration come from?

From nano- + filtration.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).