| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun impurity.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (impurity) | 1. Worthless or dangerous material that should be removed.[Wordnet]. 2. The condition of being impure.[Wordnet]. 3. Worthless material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water".[Wordnet]. 4. The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.[Websters]. 5. That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.[Websters]. 6. Want of ceremonial purity; defilement.[Websters]. | |
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Date "IMPURITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Specialty Definition: impurity
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] Want of purity; foulness; feculence; the admixture of a foreign substance in any thing; as the impurity of water, of air, of spirits, or of any species of earth or metal.. | 2: [Noun] Any foul matter.. | 3: [Noun] Unchastity; lewdness. The foul impurities that reigned among the monkish clergy.. | 4: [Noun] Want of sanctity or holiness; defilement by guilt.. | 5: [Noun] Want of ceremonial purity; legal pollution or uncleanness. By the Mosaic law, a person contracted impurity by touching a dead body or a leper.. | 6: [Noun] Foul language; obscenity. Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Electrical Engineering | 1: A) foreign atoms in a single element semiconductor; b) foreign atoms or either an excess or a deficiency of atoms, with respect to the stoichiometric composition of a compound semiconductor. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Foreign atoms added to a semiconductor crystal to produce excess electrons (a donor impurity) or excess holes (an acceptor impurity). Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Mining | Any undesirable substance not normally present in air, water, coal, or other materials or present in an excessive amount. Syn: contaminant. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | Impurities are substances inside a confined amount of liquid, gas, or solid, which differ from the chemical composition of the material or compound. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] A component or additive that renders something else impure. The impurities in the iron ore made extraction of the iron very difficult. (references) | 2: [Noun] A state of immorality or sin. With his cheating, lying and stealing, he epitomised the impurity of humanity. (references) | 3: [Noun] The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification. Even animals in the Jewish system cause impurity only when they are dead. (references) |
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Specialty Expressions: IMPURITIES
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Compensated impurities | Electrical Engineering | The donor or acceptor impurities in semiconductor material, neutralized by the presence of impurities of the opposite type. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Ionic impurities | Electrical Engineering | Condensate polishers are devices that can also remove ionic (dissolved) impurities from the water returning to the steam generator from the condenser. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: impurity | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Impurity | 34 | Impurity | 34 | |
| Impurity (album) | 17 | Impurity (album) | 17 | |
| Impurity (Fleshcrawl album) | 10 | Impurity (Fleshcrawl album) | 10 | |
| Magnetic impurity | 3 | Magnetic impurity | 3 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
