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contamination

/kuhn-tam-uh-ney-shuhn/US // kənˌtæm əˈneɪ ʃən //UK // (kənˌtæmɪˈneɪʃən) //

污染,污染问题,污染物,污染情况

Related Words

contagion传染,传染性,传染病,传播disease疾病,病症,病,患病epidemic疫情,流行病,流行病学,流行性疾病infection感染,感染问题,传感染,感染症corruption腐败,贪污,腐蚀,腐败问题pollution污染,污染问题,污染情况,污染物poisoning中毒,中毒事件,中毒问题,下毒pestilence瘟疫,传染病,流行病,疾病impurity不纯物,不纯洁性,不纯物质,不纯洁decay腐烂,衰变,衰落,衰减taint污点,污垢,污污,污玷plague霍乱,瘟疫,困扰,大灾filth秽物,污垢,污秽,秽气foulness污浊度,污秽,污浊,脏污defilement污辱,玷污,污损,污秽dirtying弄脏,变脏,弄脏了,肮脏rottenness腐烂性,腐烂,腐朽,腐败spoliation疏散,损毁,侵占,破产

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounadulteration
Synonyms
contagion传染,传染性,传染病,传播corruption腐败,贪污,腐蚀,腐败问题disease疾病,病症,病,患病epidemic疫情,流行病,流行病学,流行性疾病infection感染,感染问题,传感染,感染症poisoning中毒,中毒事件,中毒问题,下毒pollution污染,污染问题,污染情况,污染物decay腐烂,衰变,衰落,衰减defilement污辱,玷污,污损,污秽dirtying弄脏,变脏,弄脏了,肮脏filth秽物,污垢,污秽,秽气foulness污浊度,污秽,污浊,脏污impurity不纯物,不纯洁性,不纯物质,不纯洁pestilence瘟疫,传染病,流行病,疾病plague霍乱,瘟疫,困扰,大灾rottenness腐烂性,腐烂,腐朽,腐败spoliation疏散,损毁,侵占,破产taint污点,污垢,污污,污玷radioactivation放射性活化,放射性激活,辐射活化,放射性活化剂

Examples

  • 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.

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