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contamination

noun
/kənˌtæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/UK/kənˌtæm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/US/kənˌtæm.ɪˈnæɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From Latin contāminātiōnem.

  1. derived from contāminātiō

Definitions

  1. The act or process of contaminating.

  2. Something which contaminates.

  3. A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development…

      The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.

    2. The intermingling of readings from multiple sources by a copyist.

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Derived

anticontamination, biocontamination, cross-contamination, microcontamination, noncontamination, radiocontamination, recontamination, xenocontamination

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at contamination. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at contamination. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at contamination

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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