contaminatie — meaning in English
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English meaning
- contamination noun The act of making something impure or unsafe, or the harmful substance responsible for it.
Senses
contaminatie is used for these senses in English:
- contamination The act or process of contaminating.
- contamination (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.
- portmanteau word (linguistics) A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel.