Isolate may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Isolate'' (film), a 2013 Australian film
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''Isolate'' (Circus Maximus album), 2007
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''Isolate'' (Gary Numan album), 1992
Language
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Isolating language
An isolating language is a type of language with a morpheme per word ratio close to one, and with no inflectional morphology whatsoever. In the extreme case, each word contains a single morpheme. Examples of widely spoken isolating languages a ...
, with near-unity morpheme/word ratio
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Language isolate
Language isolates are languages that cannot be classified into larger language families. Korean and Basque are two of the most common examples. Other language isolates include Ainu in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, and Haida in North America. The num ...
, unrelated to any other
Science and technology
* The product of
isolation (microbiology)
In microbiology, the term isolation refers to the separation of a strain from a natural, mixed population of living microbes, as present in the environment, for example in water or soil, or from living beings with skin flora, oral flora or gut f ...
, may be called:
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fungal isolate
Fungal isolates have been researched for decades. Because Fungus, fungi often exist in thin Mycelium, mycelial monolayers, with no protective shell, immune system, and limited mobility, they have developed the ability to synthesize a variety of un ...
;
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variant (biology)
In microbiology and virology, the term variant or genetic variant is used to describe a subtype of a microorganism that is genetically distinct from a main strain, but not sufficiently different to be termed a distinct strain. A similar distinctio ...
;
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strain (biology)
In biology, a strain is a genetic variant, a subtype or a culture within a biological species. Strains are often seen as inherently artificial concepts, characterized by a specific intent for genetic isolation. This is most easily observed in mi ...
.
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Chemical isolate
Purification in a chemical context is the physical separation of a chemical substance of interest from foreign or contaminating substances. Pure results of a successful purification process are termed isolate. The following list of chemical pur ...
, from chemical purification
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Protein isolate
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Genetic isolate
Introduction
Geographic isolation or other factors that prevent reproduction have resulted in a population of organisms with a change in genetic diversity and ultimately leads to the genetic isolation of species. Genetic isolates form new specie ...
, a population that does not mix with organisms of the same species
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Isolate (computation) The Application Isolation API ( JSR 121) provides a specification for isolating and controlling Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and ...
, in the Java Application Isolation API
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Primary isolate
Primary isolate is a pure microbial or viral sample that has been obtained from an infected individual, rather than grown in a laboratory. In chemistry and bacteriology, the verb ''isolate'' means to obtain a pure chemical, bacteriological or vir ...
, a microbial sample from an infected individual
See also
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Isolation (disambiguation)
Isolation is the near or complete lack of social contact by an individual.
Isolation or isolated may also refer to:
Sociology and psychology
*Isolation (health care), various measures taken to prevent contagious diseases from being spread
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