Definition of Purifier

1. Noun. An apparatus for removing impurities.

Generic synonyms: Apparatus, Setup
Specialized synonyms: Scrubber
Derivative terms: Purify

Definition of Purifier

1. n. One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.

Definition of Purifier

1. Noun. A person or device that purifies (by removing impurities) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Purifier

1. one that purifies [n -S] - See also: purifies

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purifier

purgeries
purgers
purgery
purges
purging
purgings
puri
purification
purifications
purificative
purificator
purificators
purificatory
purified
purifier (current term)
purifiers
purifies
puriform
purify
purifying
purile
purims
purin
purine
purinergic
purinergic receptor
purinergic receptors
purinergically
purines

Literary usage of Purifier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1900)
"keep the milk of lime in constant motion, and to prevent the lime from settling to the bottom of the purifier. The vessel is discharged and filled by means ..."

2. A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous by Alexander Jamieson (1829)
"3, in the Plate, represents a longitudinal section of Palmer's purifier, and fig. 4, a front view of the same, with the mouths of the upper purifier closed, ..."

3. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"The purifier.—Formerly, and by what is now known as the old process of ... By the introduction of the middlings purifier two steps have been added to the ..."

4. The Cereals in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1908)
"The purifier.—Formerly, and by what is now known as the old process of ... By the introduction of the middlings purifier two steps have been added to the ..."

5. Food Industries: An Elementary Text-book on the Production and Manufacture by Hermann Theodore Vulté, Sadie Bird Vanderbilt (1916)
"The middling purifier (Fig. 15) is very complicated in its mechanical structure, ... Middlings purifier for Taking Impurities from the Crushed Grain. ..."

6. Engineering Chemistry: A Manual of Quantitative Chemical Analysis by Thomas Bliss Stillman (1897)
"The Hoppes feed-water purifier. This purifier consists of a round shell of best boiler steel, ... The purifier is connected to the boiler by a ..."

7. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"... agitators, valves, and connections, raised for the lime liquor to run from one purifier to the next below it, and ultimately into the refuse lime-pite, ..."

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