Pollution vs Fouling - What's the difference?
pollution | fouling | Synonyms |
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 adhesion of a foreign material onto a surface, especially so as to reduce its functionality
As nouns the difference between pollution and fouling
is that pollution is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances while fouling is the adhesion of a foreign material onto a surface, especially so as to reduce its functionality.As a verb fouling is
present participle of lang=en.pollution
English
(wikipedia pollution)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the
- 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.
