Usually means: Contaminant that alters purity, composition.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. impurity: Merriam-Webster
  2. impurity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impurity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impurity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impurity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Impurity, impurity: Wordnik
  7. impurity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. impurity: Wiktionary
  9. impurity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. impurity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. impurity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. impurity: Dictionary.com
  13. impurity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Impurity (Fleshcrawl album), Impurity (New Model Army album), Impurity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Impurity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. impurity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. impurity: Rhymezone
  18. Impurity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. impurity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. impurity: FreeDictionary.org
  21. impurity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. impurity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. impurity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. impurity: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impurity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. impurity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  1. impurity: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
▸ noun:  A component or additive that renders something else impure.
▸ noun:  A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.

Similar:
impureness, dross, unpureness, nonpurity, purity, imperfection, adulterateness, immundity, unpollutedness, untaintedness, more...

Opposite:
purity, cleanliness, innocence

Types:
dirt, dust, germs, bacteria, viruses, toxins, chemicals, pollutants, more...

Phrases:
acceptor impurity, Anderson impurity model, sexual impurity, opposite of impurity, moral impurity, more...

Adjectives:
moral, sexual, common, type, organic, major, substitutional, single, only, donor, much

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    gray,     brown,     olive,     mustard,     rust, more...



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Similar:
impureness, dross, unpureness, nonpurity, purity, imperfection, adulterateness, immundity, unpollutedness, untaintedness, more...

Opposite:
purity, cleanliness, innocence

Types:
dirt, dust, germs, bacteria, viruses, toxins, chemicals, pollutants, more...

Phrases:
acceptor impurity, Anderson impurity model, sexual impurity, opposite of impurity, moral impurity, impurity doped region, more...

Adjectives:
moral, sexual, common, type, organic, major, substitutional, single, only, donor, much

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     olive,     mustard,     rust, more...



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