isolating
verb
Meaning
- To set apart or cut off from others.
- To place in quarantine or isolation.
- To separate a substance in pure form from a mixture.
- To insulate, or make free of external influence.
- To separate a pure strain of bacteria etc. from a mixed culture.
- To insulate an electrical component from a source of electricity.
- (of languages) having low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morpheme
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