Kontamination — 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.
- contraction noun A shortened form of a word or words, often marked with an apostrophe.
Senses
Kontamination is used for these senses in English:
- contamination The act or process of contaminating.
- contraction An act of incurring debt; also (generally) , an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
- 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.
contraction — full definition
- noun A shortened form of a word or words, often marked with an apostrophe.
- noun A strong tightening of the uterine muscles that occurs before and during childbirth.
- noun A shrinking or reduction in size, scope, or economic activity.