decontamination

See also: décontamination

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-der.

English de-

English contamination

English decontamination

From de- + contamination.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːkənˌtæmɪˈneɪʃən/

• Audio (Mid-Atlantic US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

decontamination (plural decontaminations)

1. The process of removing contamination, particularly the cleaning off of dangerous materials.

Derived terms

• autodecontamination
• biodecontamination

Related terms

• contamination
• decontaminate

Translations

process of removing contamination

• Asturian: descontaminación f
• Catalan: descontaminació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 去污染 (qù wūrǎn), 淨化 / 净化 (zh) (jìnghuà), 消毒 (zh) (xiāodú)

• Finnish: puhdistus (fi), vaarallisten aineiden poisto puhdistamalla, dekontaminaatio, dekontaminointi
• French: décontamination (fr) f
• Galician: descontaminación f
• German: Dekontamination (de) f
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: decontaminazione f
• Japanese: 除染 (ja) (じょせん, josen)
• Polish: dekontaminacja f, odkażanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: descontaminação f
• Romanian: decontaminare (ro) f
• Russian: обеззара́живание (ru) n (obezzaráživanije), деконтамина́ция (ru) f (dekontaminácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: деконтаминација f

  Latin: dekontaminacija (sh) f

• Spanish: descontaminación (es) f
• Ukrainian: знезара́ження n (znezarážennja)