Usually means: Introduction of impurities causing harm.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word contamination:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. contamination: Merriam-Webster
  2. contamination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contamination: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contamination: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contamination: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contamination, contamination: Wordnik
  7. contamination: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contamination: Wiktionary
  9. contamination: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contamination: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contamination: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. contamination: Dictionary.com
  13. contamination: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Contamination (disambiguation), Contamination (film), Contamination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Contamination: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. contamination: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. contamination: Rhymezone
  18. Contamination: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. contamination: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. contamination: FreeDictionary.org
  21. contamination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. contamination: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. contamination: Legal dictionary
  2. contamination: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technopedia (No longer online)
  2. contamination: Encyclopedia

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

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

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Contamination: HYPP Zoology
  3. Contamination: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. contamination: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. CONTAMINATION: Power Engineering
  6. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See contaminations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act or process of contaminating.
noun:  Something which contaminates.
noun:  (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
noun:  (linguistics, 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.
noun:  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.

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