Sieve

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Sieve may mean:

Contents

1 Cooking
2 Mathematics
3 Computer science
4 Other uses

Cooking

a colander
a chinoise, or conical sieve

Mathematics

sieve theory, technique for counting or filtering sets of numbers
* sieve of Eratosthenes
* general number field sieve
* large sieve
sieve (category theory), a way of writing down how objects in a category glue to give other ones

Computer science

Sieve (mail filtering language), a proposed standard for specifying mail filters.

Other uses

In metaphor and simile, sieve may often be used to refer to things that are leaky, as a sieve used for a bowl.
On rivers, a sieve is a dangerous obstacle that water can pass through, but people cannot.

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