- 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.
- 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.
- the act or process of contaminating or the state of being contaminated
- something that contaminates
- the process by which one word or phrase is altered because of mistaken associations with another word or phrase; for example, the substitution of irregardless for regardless by association with such words as irrespective
