contamination

Noun

 * 1) The act or process of contaminating.
 * 2) Something which contaminates.
 * 3)  A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
 * 4)  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.
 * 1) 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

 * cross-contamination

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: znečištění, kontaminace
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kontaminado, kontamino
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German: ; Verseuchung,
 * Hungarian:, ,  , beszennyeződés, ,  , ,
 * Interlingua: contamination
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Luxembourgish: Verseuchung, Kontaminatioun
 * Macedonian: загаду́вање
 * Maltese: kontaminazzjoni
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: iʼniiyą́ą́ʼ
 * Piedmontese: contaminassion
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: truailleadh
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan:
 * Czech: kontaminace
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: sanasekauma
 * Interlingua: contamination
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: контамина́ција
 * Polish: kontaminacja
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: контаміна́ція


 * Dutch:
 * Latvian: kontaminēšanās, kontaminācija
 * Polish: kontaminacja,
 * Ukrainian: контаміна́ція

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  act or process of contaminating