- a contaminating or being contaminated
- something that contaminates
Origin of contamination
Middle English contaminacioun from Classical Latin contaminatio
noun
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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contamination
noun
- a. The act or process of contaminating.b. The state of being contaminated.
- One that contaminates.
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Noun
(plural contaminations)
- The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
- (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
- (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.
- 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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Sentence Examples
- (2) There is a great increase in contamination in the milk at each stage before it reaches the customer.
- 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.
- H.) protection against plague; (2) on the comparative liability of each fluid to contamination; and (3) on the probable origin of tetanus virus in the Malkowal cases.
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WORDS NEAR contamination IN THE DICTIONARY
- contamination
- contaminate
- contaminated
- contaminates