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noun the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.
the act of contaminating, or of rendering something harmful or unusable by the addition of radioactive material: the contamination of food following a nuclear attack.
the state of being contaminated: The manufacturer recalled the product because of possible salmonella contamination.
Rare . something that contaminates a place or substance, as by making it impure, unsuitable, harmful, or unusable; a contaminant.
Linguistics . an alternation in a linguistic form due to the influence of a related form, as the replacement in English of earlier femelle with female through the influence of male. the process of forming blends. Compare blend (def. 9). Origin of contamination 1375–1425; late Middle English contaminacioun <Late Latin contāminātiōn- (stem of contāminātiō ), equivalent to contāmināt (us ) (see contaminate) + -iōn- -ion
OTHER WORDS FROM contamination non·con·tam·i·na·tion, noun re·con·tam·i·na·tion, noun self-con·tam·i·na·tion, noun Words nearby contamination containment, containment, policy of, contakion, contaminant, contaminate, contamination , contango, contd., conte, contemn, contemp.
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Example sentences from the Web for contamination Similar contamination problems occurred after the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, and in Paradise after the Camp Fire, as E&E News Reports.
California wildfires may give way to massive mudslides | Ula Chrobak| September 17, 2020| Popular Science
San Diego sued the energy company in 2007, claiming the city should recoup over $100 million in damages for the gas contamination .
Pursuing Independent Water Sources, San Diego Ignores One Beneath Its Feet | MacKenzie Elmer| September 14, 2020| Voice of San Diego
More mundanely, the signal could come from contamination inside the experiment.
Dark Matter Experiment Finds Unexplained Signal | Natalie Wolchover| June 17, 2020| Quanta Magazine
They expected to see roughly 232 of these recoils, caused by known sources of background contamination .
Dark Matter Experiment Finds Unexplained Signal | Natalie Wolchover| June 17, 2020| Quanta Magazine
Srubar’s group worked in a lab where contamination is easy to avoid.
This ‘living’ concrete slurps up a greenhouse gas | Carolyn Wilke| May 6, 2020| Science News For Students
There is one theory that they were both exposed by a Liberian worker in the contamination crew who fell ill.
‘He Could Have Brought Ebola Here’: Minnesota Widow on Her Husband | Michael Daly| July 30, 2014| DAILY BEAST
There has been a lot of concern about contamination of the evidence at the site.
MH17 Is the World’s First Open-Source Air Crash Investigation | Clive Irving| July 22, 2014| DAILY BEAST
Contamination must be proven with certainty not supposition.
Italian Court Explains Why It Overturned Amanda Knox’s Acquittal | Barbie Latza Nadeau| June 19, 2013| DAILY BEAST
The contamination was ultimately traced back to a scrub technician named Kristen Parker.
Doctor Accused of Infecting Patients With Hepatitis C Breaks Silence | Carol McKinley| February 22, 2013| DAILY BEAST
So contamination sometimes has more to do with the kitchen or restaurant it came from then the food itself.
The Green Monster | Ilana Glazer| January 29, 2013| DAILY BEAST
Impure water is a common source of the contamination of milk in such places.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 2 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
On the surface it appeared an excellent method of ridding a country of the contamination of heresy.
Medival Heresy and the Inquisition | A. S. Turberville
The kind of bedding used in the stalls may have a marked influence on the contamination coming from the animal.
Outlines of dairy bacteriology | H. L. Russell
At all events she would be spared the contamination of the factory.
It is obvious that the effect would fail if the contamination of the surface had proceeded too far previously to the collision.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 | Various
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British Dictionary definitions for contamination noun the act or process of contaminating or the state of being contaminated
something that contaminates
linguistics the process by which one word or phrase is altered because of mistaken associations with another word or phrase; for example, the substitution of irregardless for regardless by association with such words as irrespective
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Words related to contamination contagion, disease, epidemic, infection, corruption, pollution, poisoning, pestilence, impurity, decay, taint, plague, filth, foulness, defilement, dirtying, rottenness, spoliation
Medical definitions for contamination n. The act or process of rendering something harmful or unsuitable.
The presence of extraneous, especially infectious, material that renders a substance or preparation impure or harmful.
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