contamination 的定义
- the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.
- the act of contaminating, or of rendering something harmful or unusable by the addition of radioactive material: the contamination of food following a nuclear attack.
- the state of being contaminated: The manufacturer recalled the product because of possible salmonella contamination.
- Rare. something that contaminates a place or substance, as by making it impure, unsuitable, harmful, or unusable; a contaminant.
- Linguistics. an alternation in a linguistic form due to the influence of a related form, as the replacement in English of earlier femelle with female through the influence of male.the process of forming blends.Compare blend.
contamination 近义词
adulteration
更多contamination例句
- Similar contamination problems occurred after the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, and in Paradise after the Camp Fire, as E&E News Reports.
- San Diego sued the energy company in 2007, claiming the city should recoup over $100 million in damages for the gas contamination.
- More mundanely, the signal could come from contamination inside the experiment.
- They expected to see roughly 232 of these recoils, caused by known sources of background contamination.
- Srubar’s group worked in a lab where contamination is easy to avoid.
- Shoddy well construction is considered a primary cause of groundwater contamination at drilling sites.
- The fact that the first true contamination happened in the controlled environment of a hospital will do little to calm nerves.
- There is one theory that they were both exposed by a Liberian worker in the contamination crew who fell ill.
- There has been a lot of concern about contamination of the evidence at the site.
- Could modern human DNA contamination affect the resultant radiocarbon date?
- There's no need for you to suffer any further contamination by mingling with such persons as are yonder.
- Taboos of first chapter indicate that in the early ages the fear of contamination by woman predominated.
- Norden, therefore, seems to go too far in giving this as an example of contamination of poetic by rhetoric.
- His face was greenish from the effects of the special, contamination resistant mixture that they were breathing.
- Likewise, if the persons who do the milking are not clean, the milk is subject to contamination from this source.