Contamination definition

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Something that contaminates.
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The definition of contamination is something that contaminates (causes an impurity) or is something that has been made impure or spoiled.

Toxic waste that spoils the water supply is an example of contamination.

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A contaminating or being contaminated.
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One that contaminates.
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The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
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The act or process of contaminating.
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The state of being contaminated.
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(linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
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(linguistics, etymology) The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
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The process of making a material or surface unclean or unsuited for its intended purpose, usually by the addition or attachment of undesirable foreign substances.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
contamination
Plural:
contaminations

Contamination Sentence Examples

  • This provides for the reduction as far as possible of contamination during the milking process itself.

  • If the contamination exceed a certain limit, the scrapings remain quite dead.

  • The unavoidable contamination with muddy particles of vat-waste is removed by allowing the vatliquor to rest for some hours in a separate tank and settling out the mud.

  • It would seem that the surfaces, coming into collision within a fraction of a second of their birth, would still be subject to further contamination from the interior.

  • The tension for clean water thus found is considerably lower than that (81) adopted by Quincke, but it seems to be entitled to confidence, and at any rate the deficiency is not due to contamination of the surface.

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