contaminant
Use Contaminant in a sentence
ə noun
something that contaminates.
Origin:
1920–25; < Latin contāminant- (stem of contāmināns), present participle of contāmināre. See contaminate, -ant
1920–25; < Latin contāminant- (stem of contāmināns), present participle of contāmināre. See contaminate, -ant
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| contaminate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to make impure, esp by touching or mixing; pollute |
| 2. | to make radioactive by the addition of radioactive material |
| —adj | |
| 3. | archaic contaminated |
| [C15: from Latin contamināre to defile; related to Latin contingere to touch] | |
| con'taminable | |
| —adj | |
| con'taminant | |
| —n | |
| con'taminative | |
| —adj | |
| con'taminator | |
| —n | |
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Contaminant
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Contaminant control is intractable only if the bio reactor is open to the outside air and water supply, as in a pond.
Some scientists suspect the hemoglobin is a contaminant.
They are also moved as a contaminant in hay, grain, straw, and machinery.
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