1. Free of extraneous elements of any kind
2. Not mixed; SYN. unmixed, undiluted.
3. Having no faults; sinless
4. Free from discordant qualities.
5. Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
6. In a state of sexual virginity; SYN. vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous.

Množina: pure absences

Petit mal seizure without other complications; followed by 3-per-sec brain-wave spikes; SYN. simple absence.

Množina: pure alcohols

Množina: pure BCDs

Množina: pure coffees

Množina: pure cultures

Množina: pure democracies

Democracy in which the power is exercised directly by the people rather than through representatives

Množina: pure imaginaries

A complex number that is solely the product of a real number other than zero and the imaginary unit.

Množina: pure imaginary numbers

An imaginary number of the form a+bi where a is 0.

Množina: Pure Land Buddhisms

Dominant form of Buddhism in China and Japan. It emphasizes faith in and love of Buddha, in particular Amitabha (Amida in Japan, Amituofo in China), the ideal “Buddha of boundless light”, who has vowed that all believers who call on his name will be reborn in his Pure Land, or Western Paradise. This also applies to women, who had been debarred from attaining salvation through monastic life. There are over 16 million Pure Land Buddhists in Japan.
Amidism developed in China in the 3rd century, where the Pure Land school was, according to tradition, founded by the monk Hui Yuan (334–417); it spread in Japan from the 10th century. The basic teachings are found in the Sukhavati vyuha/Pure Land Sutra. The prayer Namu Amida Butsu or Nembutsu was in some sects repeated for several hours a day. The True Pure Land school (Jodo Shinshu), founded by the Japanese monk Shinran (1173–1262), held that a single, sincere invocation was enough and rejected monastic discipline and the worship of all other Buddhas; this has become the largest school.

Množina: pure mathematics

The branches of mathematics that study and develop the principles of mathematics for their own sake rather than for their immediate usefulness.

Množina: pure nonsences

Množina: pure procedures

Any procedure that modifies only data that is dynamically allocated (usually on the stack). A pure procedure cannot modify either global data or its own code. This restriction allows a pure procedure to be called simultaneously by separate tasks. See also reentrant code.

Množina: pure strains

Full-blooded.