Purity
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Purity may refer to:
Books
[edit]- Pureza (novel), a 1937 Brazilian novel by José Lins do Rego
- Purity (novel), a 2015 novel by Jonathan Franzen
- Purity (TV series), a TV series based on the novel
- Purity, a 2012 novel by Jackson Pearce
- Purity, a 1998 novel by Shaun Hutson
- Purity, a 2007 play by Thomas Bradshaw (playwright)
- Cleanness, also known as Purity, a 14th-century poem
Companies
[edit]- Purity Dairies, a dairy company in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Purity Factories, a food processing company in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Purity Distilling Company, an alcohol manufacturer involved in the Boston Molasses Disaster in the U.S.
- Purity FM, a Nigerian radio station
- Purity, a former supermarket brand owned by Woolworths Supermarkets (Australia)
Film
[edit]- Purity (film), a 1916 motion picture
- Purity by Anat Zuria
- Black oil (The X-Files) (also known as Purity), a fictional alien virus in the TV series The X-Files
Music
[edit]- "Purity" (song), a 1999 song by Slipknot on their debut self-titled album
- Purity (Hate Forest album) (2003)
Places
[edit]- Purity Mountain, a summit in Canada
Religion
[edit]- Purity, the absence of vice in human character, synonymous with chastity when used in reference to a person's sexual nature
- Ritual purification, a feature of many religions
- Purity in Buddhism, a spiritual purity of character or essence
Science
[edit]- Purity, the absence of impurity or contaminants in a substance; for example, Chemical purity
- Purity, the proportion of a named pure substance in a sample (by weight, mass, volume, or count)
- Fineness, several units of purity of precious metals
- Nine (purity), an informal unit of purity
- Purity, the colorfulness of a light source
- Purity (quantum mechanics), a measure of correlation between a system and its environment
- Purity (algebraic geometry), a lack of unmixed-ness