contamination
The act or process of contaminating.
Other meanings
Something which contaminates.
A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
Related words
- anticontamination
- biocontamination
- microcontamination
- noncontamination
- radiocontamination
- recontamination
- xenocontamination
- cross-contamination
Word history
From Latin "contāminātiō".
Where this comes from
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