Impurity vs Adaptation - What's the difference?
impurity | adaptation |
The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
A component or additive that renders something else impure.
* {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
(label) The quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.
(label) Adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of some thing or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.
* {{quote-book, title=, year=1911
, passage=ACCLIMATIZATION, the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and at first injurious to them.}}
(label) Something which has been adapted; variation.
* {{quote-book, author=Frederick Lawton, title=, year=1910
, passage=Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.}}
As nouns the difference between impurity and adaptation
is that impurity is the condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification while adaptation is the quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.impurity
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(impurities)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}