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sieving

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of sieve

noun sievings

  1. The act of passing something through a sieve.
  2. Material that has passed through a sieve. The sievings retained on different sieves are washed into separate Petri dishes for further observations or purification by sucrose centrifugation.

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@misc{sieving_2026,
  title = {sieving},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sieving},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}