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
Social isolation, Isolation is the near or complete lack of social contact by an individual.
Isolation or isolated may also refer to:
Sociology and psychology
*Social isolation
*Isolation (psychology), a defense mechanism in psychoanalytic theo ...
, with near-unity morpheme/word ratio
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Language isolate
A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. Basque in Europe, Ainu and Burushaski in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, Haida and Zuni in North America, Kanoê in South America, and Tiwi ...
, 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:
** an isolate;
*** specifically a
fungal isolate
Fungal isolates have been researched for decades. Because fungi often exist in thin mycelial monolayers, with no protective shell, immune system, and limited mobility, they have developed the ability to synthesize a variety of unusual compounds fo ...
;
** a
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 ...
;
** or a
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 mic ...
.
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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 pu ...
, from chemical purification
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Protein isolate
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Genetic isolate
A genetic isolate is a population of organisms that has little to no genetic mixing with other organisms of the same species due to geographic isolation or other factors that prevent reproduction. Genetic isolates form new species through an evolu ...
, a population that does not mix with organisms of the same species
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Isolate (computation), 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
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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
*Social isolation
*Isolation (psychology), a defense mechanism in psychoanalytic theory
*Emotional iso ...
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