Taint

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Taint or tainted 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

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Other uses

  • Taint (anatomy), colloquial name for the space between the anus and genitals; the perineum
  • Tint, an archaic form, referring to a color mixed with white
  • Tainted kernel, when proprietary modules are loaded into Linux