pollutant

noun
/pəˈl(j)uːtənt/

Etymology

From pollute + -ant.

  1. derived from pollūtum
  2. inherited from polluten
  3. suffixed as pollutant — “pollute + ant

Definitions

  1. A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human…

    A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.

    • Acid rain forms when water in the atmosphere condenses on particles containing acid-forming pollutants, such as sulfate produced by the burning of fossil fuels and nitrogen oxides from automobile exhausts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pollutant. 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.

01pollutant02waste03garbage04foul05unclean06chaste07pure08pollutants

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

8 hops · closes at pollutant

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

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