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# purification

«purification» in Mova's school dictionary: **Making something clean and pure by removing dirt or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (purification, uncountable; a purification — a ritual)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Making something clean and pure by removing dirt or harmful things: «water purification». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purification/#m1)

2) (church, religion) Making a person or place spiritually clean, often with a ceremony; for example, the Bible's laws of purification, or washing before prayer in many faiths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purification/#m2)

3) (science) Separating a pure substance from a mixture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purification/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and geography lessons water purification makes water safe to drink (filtering, boiling, chlorine). In religious education many faiths have purification rituals; in church the Feast of the Purification (Candlemas, 2 February) remembers Mary taking baby Jesus to the Temple. Phrases: «water purification», «air purification», «purification tablets», «rites of purification».

### examples

- Water purification removes germs so the water is safe to drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purification/#x1)
- Hikers carry purification tablets for stream water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purification/#x2)
- The factory has an air purification system. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purification/#x3)
- Candlemas is also called the Feast of the Purification. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purification/#x4)
- Muslims wash in a set way for purification before prayer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purification/#x5)
- We learned about purification by filtering muddy water in science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purification/#x6)

### note

Mostly uncountable. Verb: purify; adjective: pure. Science: filtering removes bits you can see, boiling kills germs, but neither removes all dissolved chemicals. Never drink river water without purifying it.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «purification» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purification/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.