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A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action.

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  1. A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action.
  2. A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous orforaminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid bycentrifugal action.