Usually means: Removal of hazardous or contaminating substances.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word decontamination:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. decontamination: Merriam-Webster
  2. decontamination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decontamination: Collins English Dictionary
  4. decontamination: Vocabulary.com
  5. Decontamination, decontamination: Wordnik
  6. decontamination: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. decontamination: Wiktionary
  8. decontamination: Dictionary.com
  9. Decontamination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. decontamination: Rhymezone
  11. decontamination: FreeDictionary.org
  12. decontamination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. decontamination: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Decontamination: Energy Dictionary
  2. decontamination: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decontamination: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. decontamination: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. decontamination: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Army Technology Glossary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Decontamination: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

(Note: See decontaminate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (decontamination)

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

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