noun A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
noun A kind of coarse basket.
noun A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input. One of several techniques for counting integers.
Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
noun One of several techniques for counting integers.
Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
noun A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.
noun A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets. An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
noun An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.