0 present participle of purify
1 to remove bad substances from something to make it pure:
Both ' purifying movements ' required all sorts of hybrids - including the mixture of purifying forms of knowledge and of the categories they created.
Detergents, which are commonly used for stabilizing and purifying hydrophobic molecules, can also be problematic, as detergent micelles scatter very well.
These data suggest that purifying selection removes deletion variation before it is fixed in populations, but that insertions are capable of fixing through genetic drift.
We are now purifying the term grammar to include the claim that any consistent grammar cannot have contradictory rules.
There are three possible explanations for this result : population structure, purifying selection and selective sweep.
For this reason, it was imperative that both women and children be educated in the purifying benefits of anarcho-naturism, in particular.
For all peoples there comes a time when purifying their language becomes the most urgent philological task.
These results suggest that purifying selection removes deletion variation from intron sequences, but not insertion polymorphisms.
