contamination

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

contamination (plural contaminations)

1. The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
2. (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
3. 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.

Translations

The act or process of contaminating

• Bulgarian: замърсяване (bg) (zamǎrsjavane) n
• Catalan: contaminació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 污染 (cmn) (wūrǎn)

• Czech: znečištění (cs) n, kontaminace (cs) f
• Esperanto: kontaminado (eo), kontamino (eo)
• Finnish: saastuminen (fi), pilaantuminen (fi), saastuttaminen (fi)
• French: contamination (fr) f

• German: Verunreinigung (de) f; Verseuchung (de) f, Kontamination (de) f (poison or pathogen)
• Italian: contaminazione (it)
• Japanese: 汚染 (ja) (おせん, osen), コンタミネーション (ja) (kontaminēshon)
• Maltese: kontaminazzjoni (mt) f
• Russian: загрязнение (ru) (zagrjaznénije) n
• Scottish Gaelic: truailleadh (gd) m
• Spanish: contaminación (es) f

A grammatical blend

• Catalan: contaminació (ca) f
• Czech: kontaminace (cs) f
• Finnish: sanasekauma (fi)

• Japanese: コンタミネーション (ja) (kontaminēshon)
• Russian: контаминация (ru) (kontaminácija) f

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na.sjɔ̃/

Noun

contamination f (plural contaminations)

1. contamination (act or process of contaminating)

Related terms

• contaminer