Usually means: Substance that pollutes or corrupts.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. contaminant: Merriam-Webster
  2. contaminant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contaminant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contaminant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contaminant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contaminant, contaminant: Wordnik
  7. contaminant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contaminant: Wiktionary
  9. contaminant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contaminant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contaminant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. contaminant: Dictionary.com
  13. Contaminant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. contaminant: Rhymezone
  15. contaminant: FreeDictionary.org
  16. contaminant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. contaminant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. contaminant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. contaminant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Contaminant: Health & Beauty Glossary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. contaminant: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contaminant: Encyclopedia

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

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Contaminant: Beauty & Health Glossary
  3. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. CONTAMINANT: Glossary of Composting Terms

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noun:  That which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter.

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