contamination

Contamination , also contamination , ( Latin contaminare , besudeln) denotes pollution , in particular

• unwanted substance fractions in batches and mixtures, see substance purity
• the pollution of properties and surfaces, see soil contamination
• Contamination (medicine) , the contamination by microorganisms or harmful substances
• Contamination (radioactivity) , the contamination with radioactive substances
• Backward Contamination and Forward Contamination in Space

Contamination also describes phenomena in linguistics:

• a new word created by merging parts of two or more words, see contamination (linguistics)
• a type of slip of the tongue in which words or parts of sentences are mixed up, see linguistic slip of the tongue
• handwriting or text copied using two or more originals. The resulting manuscript bears features from different traditions at the same time.

See also:

Wiktionary: Contamination  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• decontamination
• Contaminant (food)
• Contaminated normal distribution

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.