PURIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purification mean? 

• PURIFICATION (noun)
  The noun PURIFICATION has 4 senses:

1. the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities

2. the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

3. a ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites

4. the act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing

  Familiarity information: PURIFICATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("purification" is a kind of...):

cleaning; cleansing; cleanup (the act of making something clean)

Derivation:

purify (remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

purification; refinement; refining

Hypernyms ("purification" is a kind of...):

processing (preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "purification"):

rectification ((chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation)

Derivation:

purify (remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A ceremonial cleansing from defilement or uncleanness by the performance of appropriate rites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

purgation; purification

Hypernyms ("purification" is a kind of...):

ceremony (the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion)

Derivation:

purify (make pure or free from sin or guilt)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of purging of sin or guilt; moral or spiritual cleansing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

purification through repentance

Hypernyms ("purification" is a kind of...):

purgation; purge; purging (the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge)

Derivation:

purify (become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin)

 Context examples 

It is used in the characterization and purification of glycoproteins.

(Concanavalin A, NCI Thesaurus)

The production of concentrated proteins from animal plasma during a protein purification process.

(Animal Blood Product-Derived Intermediate Paste Production, NCI Thesaurus)

Purification of either blood-grouping antigens or viral proteins.

(Blood or Viral Antigen Purification, NCI Thesaurus)

These benefits include carbon sequestration, flood protection and water purification.

(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)

The same can be said for other groups of organisms, on which we depend for many of our medicines, ecosystem services, atmospheric purification, carbon storage, and everything that really makes our lives possible.

(Nearly Half the Planet's Species Could Be Wiped Out by the End of This Century, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Two-dimensional MXene nanosheets have promise in applications ranging from energy storage to water purification.

(Vitamin C is key to protection of new nanomaterial, National Science Foundation)

It was almost enough to spread purification and perfume all the way.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

After the first four G proteins (Gs, Gt, Gi, and Go) were identified by biochemical purification, a large number of G proteins and their subunits were identified by cDNA cloning (2).

(Heterotrimeric G Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of immunoprecipitation protocol that employs UV-light induced covalent cross-linking of molecules (for instance protein and RNA) prior to the immunoprecipitation and purification steps.

(Cross-Linking and Immunoprecipitation, NCI Thesaurus)

The production of concentrated proteins from human plasma during a protein purification process.

(Human Blood Product-Derived Intermediate Paste Production, NCI Thesaurus)