What is the difference between pollution and contamination?
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The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=1 Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
(archaic) Physical defilement.
(medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
* 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon'', Blanchard, page 492 defines ''POLLUTION as:
The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
(linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
(linguistics, etymology) 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.
The process of making a material or surface unclean or unsuited for its intended purpose, usually by the addition or attachment of undesirable foreign substances.
As nouns the difference between pollution and contamination
is that pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances while contamination is the act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.pollution
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(wikipedia pollution)Noun
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- The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution'' or ''Masturbation'' (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name ''Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.