Taint

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Taint may refer to:

Impurities

  • Contamination, the presence of a minor and unwanted element (a contaminant)
    • a wine fault, such as cork taint, ladybird taint, or phenolic taint, producing undesirable odors or tastes in bottled wine
    • Infection, the colonization of a host organism by parasites
    • Taint (legal), the quality of illegally obtained court evidence
    • Taint checking, a feature of some programming languages that prevents unauthorized users from remotely executing commands on a computer

Titles

  • The Taint (novel) (or Doctor Who and the Taint), a novel written by Michael Collier and based on the British television series Doctor Who
  • Taint (band), a sludge-metal band from Wales
  • The Taint (film), a 1915 American silent film

In fiction

  • The contaminating magical substance used by necromancers in the video game Two Worlds.

Other uses

  • 'taint, colloquial name for the perineum
  • Tint, an archaic form, referring to a color mixed with white