"contaminant" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kənˈtamɪnənt/ Audio: en-us-contaminant.ogg [US] Forms: contaminants [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} contaminant (plural contaminants)
  1. That which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter. Translations (that which contaminates): contaminant [masculine] (Catalan), smetstof [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), kontaminan (Indonesian), ábhar salaithe [masculine] (Irish), ábhar truaillithe [masculine] (Irish), éilleán (english: technical term) [masculine] (Irish), loto (Malagasy), zanieczyszczenie [neuter] (Polish), contaminante [masculine] (Portuguese), contaminante [masculine] (Spanish), chất gây ô nhiễm (Vietnamese), chất gây bẩn (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-contaminant-en-noun-p2m3lNNP Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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