contamination

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin contāminātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˌtæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /kənˌtæm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˌtæm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/, [kənˌtɛəm.əˈneɪ.ʃən], [kənˌɾ̃æm.əˈneɪ.ʃən]

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /kənˌtæm.ɪˈnæɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

contamination (countable and uncountable, plural contaminations)

1. The act or process of contaminating.

   Synonyms: pollution, defilement, taint

2. Something which contaminates.
3. (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
4. (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.
5. 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.

Derived terms

• anticontamination
• biocontamination
• cross-contamination
• microcontamination
• noncontamination
• radiocontamination
• recontamination
• xenocontamination

Translations

the act or process of contaminating

Bulgarian: замърсяване (bg) n (zamǎrsjavane) Catalan: contaminació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 污染 (zh) (wūrǎn) Czech: znečištění n, kontaminace f Dutch: verontreiniging (nl) f, contaminatie (nl) f Esperanto: kontaminado, kontamino Finnish: saastuminen (fi), pilaantuminen (fi), saastuttaminen (fi) French: contamination (fr) f German: Verunreinigung (de) f; Verseuchung f, Kontamination (de) f (poison or pathogen) Hungarian: (act) szennyezés (hu), beszennyezés (hu), (process) szennyeződés (hu), beszennyeződés, elszennyeződés (hu), (state) szennyezettség (hu), kontamináció (hu), fertőzöttség (hu) Interlingua: contamination Italian: contaminazione (it) Japanese: 汚染 (ja) (おせん, osen), コンタミネーション (ja) (kontaminēshon) Luxembourgish: Verseuchung f, Kontaminatioun f Macedonian: загаду́вање n (zagadúvanje) Maltese: kontaminazzjoni f Mongolian: халдвар (mn) (xaldvar) Navajo: iʼniiyą́ą́ʼ Piedmontese: contaminassion f Polish: skażenie (pl) n Portuguese: contaminação (pt) f Romanian: contaminare (ro) f Russian: загрязне́ние (ru) n (zagrjaznénije) Scottish Gaelic: truailleadh m Spanish: contaminación (es) f

something which contaminates — see pollutant

a process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds; blend, portmanteau (word) — see also portmanteau word

Catalan: contaminació (ca) f Czech: kontaminace f Dutch: contaminatie (nl) f Finnish: sanasekauma Interlingua: contamination Japanese: コンタミネーション (ja) (kontaminēshon) Macedonian: контамина́ција f (kontaminácija) Polish: kontaminacja f Russian: контамина́ция (ru) f (kontaminácija) Ukrainian: контаміна́ція f (kontaminácija)

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

Dutch: contaminatie (nl) f Latvian: kontaminēšanās f, kontaminācija f Polish: kontaminacja f, adideacja (pl) f Ukrainian: контаміна́ція f (kontaminácija)

French

Etymology

From Latin contāminātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

contamination f (plural contaminations)

1. contamination (act or process of contaminating)

Related terms

• contaminer

Further reading

• “contamination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.