Sieve (disambiguation)

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A sieve is a tool to separate materials of one characteristic (for example, liquids) from materials of another (for example, solids).

Sieve may also refer to:

Chemistry

• Sieving coefficient, in transport phenomena

Mathematics

• Sieve theory, a technique for counting or filtering sets of numbers
  • Sieve of Eratosthenes
  • Sieve of Atkin
  • Quadratic sieve
  • General number field sieve
  • Large sieve
• Sieve (category theory)
• Sieve estimator (statistics and econometrics)
• Cyclic sieving, a phenomenon in combinatorics

Computing

• Sieve (mail filtering language), a standard for specifying mail filters
• Sieve C++ Parallel Programming System, an auto-parallelizing compiler for C++

Other uses

• Scale-invariant feature transform (or SIFT), a computer vision algorithm that detects and describes local features in images
• Sieve analysis, a practice or procedure used to assess the particle size distribution of a granular material, such as soil
• CIV (band), a New York City punk rock band pronounced "sieve"
• Sieve (hieroglyph), an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph
• In plumbing, a stainless steel strainer
• On rivers, a sieve or strainer is a dangerous obstacle that water can pass through, but people cannot. See Obstacle in whitewater canoeing
• Sieve River in Italy
• In sports such as hockey or lacrosse, "sieve" is a common slang term used when referring to a goaltender who allows many or weak goals
• In medicine, a "surgical sieve" refers to a very general list of diagnostic or pathological headings, against which any finding can be compared
• A firefighting tool used when a fire engine drafts water from a body of water. A large metal strainer is attached to the end of a hard suction hose that prevents debris from entering the hose.
• A gardening tool, known as a riddle, used to separate soil particles and provide a finer tilth, for example by removing stones and twigs
• Sieve tube element, an elongated cell in the phloem tissue of flowering plants