sieving

The act of passing something through a sieve.

Noun

  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. - 2008, D. K. Maheshwari, Potential Microorganisms For Sustainable...

Forms

sievings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of sieve