MEANING
A substance or organism that makes something impure or unsafe by its presence.
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- biological contaminant
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The filter trapped a contaminant.
A biological contaminant entered the culture.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular contaminant; plural contaminants. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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