metafilter
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- Specialized
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- By applying a metafilter, we can refine the output of the individual filters to get more accurate results.
Examples
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Discussing important social issues is, therefore, a part of the metafilter you love.
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BabyBalrog's comment above may be the greatest moment in metafilter history.
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And if politics.metafilter is too specific, consider news.metafilter.
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I sometimes wonder, if the internet and metafilter had existed in 1968, would people have complained about vietnamfilter?
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Thank you, metafilter.
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You can get more of the full story by reading this MetaTalk thread (a sort of Meta-metafilter).
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When I mark someone as my colleague, it only identifies them as a scientist to those people who have installed and are running the "metafilter mark scientist contributions" script over at userscripts.org.
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You certainly tread the same illogical waters as you accuse me of: you care enough to post to metafilter while noting its uselessness.
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The new software acts as a metafilter to enhance the data from previous analyses.
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You can use a metafilter to combine results from various search engines for a more comprehensive overview.
Synonyms
A device that joins two or more signals into one output
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Etymology
Metafilter combines meta- ('about' or 'beyond'), as in metadata, and filter. So a metafilter is a filter that works on other filters to combine their outputs and produce a final result.