overfilter

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ filter.

Verb

overfilter (third-person singular simple present overfilters, present participle overfiltering, simple past and past participle overfiltered)

1. To subject to overfiltration.

Noun

overfilter (plural overfilters)

1. (signal processing) A morphological filter (idempotent operator) whose image is a superset of the domain.
   • 1999, Edward R. Dougherty, Jaakko Astola, Nonlinear Filters for Image Processing, page 180:

     It is clear that overfilters and underfilters are dual in the sense of the duality principle.

Coordinate terms

• underfilter