contamination🔊

(contaminate) The act or process of contaminating.

📑 Synonyms: pollution defilement taint Thesaurus:contamination

(contaminator) Something which contaminates.

📑 Synonyms: adulterant contaminant impurity pollutant sophisticant Thesaurus:contaminant

(linguistics) (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.

(etymology) (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.

(textual) (textual criticism) The intermingling of readings from multiple sources by a copyist.

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