Contamination

Contamination, including contamination ( "tarnish " Latin contaminare, " defile " ) refers to a contamination or pollution, in particular

• Unwanted material components in mixtures and blends, see material purity
• Contamination (medicine), contamination by microorganisms or harmful substances
• Contamination (radioactivity ), contamination with radioactive materials

Contamination is in linguistics for:

• The fusion of elements of two or more words, see Morphologie_ (language) # contamination
• Arisen through a merger word, see portmanteau
• A type of speech errors in which words or phrases are mixed, see Linguistic slip - theories
• The subsequent insertion of scenes or figures in the transmission of Greek comedy into Latin

See also:

• Decontamination
• Contaminants ( food)
• Contaminated normal distribution

• Disambiguation