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isolating

verb

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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