impurity
pronunciation
How to pronounce impurity in British English:
UK [ɪmˈpjʊərəti]
How to pronounce impurity in American English:
US [ɪmˈpjʊrəti]
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- Noun:
- worthless material that should be removed
- the condition of being impure
Word Origin
- impurity (n.)
- mid-15c., "thing which makes or is impure;" c. 1500, "fact or quality of being impure," from Middle French impurité, from impur (see impure). Related: Impurities.
Example
- 1. In this material , a " molecule " at the heart of an artificially created diamond film consists of a nitrogen atom ( present as in impurity amid all those carbon atoms ) and a nearby vacancy , a place in the crystal containing no atom at all .
- 2. On their wedding night , he discovers her impurity .
- 3. What could be more natural , then , than to team up with islam and popery to cleanse that terrible impurity ?
- 4. He values purity and detests impurity and inauthenticity .
- 5. Analysis of optical impurity of ephedrine levorotatory by capillary electrophoresis .