contamination

Examples

• All

• The results likely overestimated the occurrence of virus contamination in groundwater as well as the resulting public health risks.

  Academic text (2002)

• An additional source of contamination can be the required transfer of impinger solutions before and after sampling.

  Academic text (2004)

• We did that to avoid contamination by socially desirable responses as much as possible.

  Academic text (1999)

• Such a study would risk contamination from extraneous variables whose effect cannot be removed.

  Academic text (1998)

• The other three false-positive results were probably due to PCR contamination since they were not confirmed on repeat testing.

  Academic text (1992)

• Many aspects of Hg contamination have been evaluated during recent decades.

  Academic text (2009)

• The test of the explosive substance yielded a false positive result due to contamination caused by previous testing.

  Putin (2025)

• A limitation of in-house control groups is the possibility of control group contamination or treatment diffusion.

  Academic text (2012)

• According to Mair, an independent, non-Chinese lab determined that the Fudan results were likely a product of contamination and thus invalid.

  Academic text (2009)

• The study found contamination in the dataset, leading to inaccurate predictions about user behavior.

Synonyms

P

poisoning

vscontamination

• Specialized

4 9.3

Deliberately adding false items to training data to make a model learn wrong things

is introduced by accident or error rather than as a planned malicious act

Antonyms

P

purification

15 4.6

Making something clean by removing unwanted or harmful substances

C

cleansing

4 3.9

Making something clean by removing dirt

Compounds

D

dust contamination

• Specialized

4.6

Small bits of dust that make a surface dirty or unsafe

How Contaminated

pollution

255 2.7

contamination

• Specialized

3 6.5

impurity

19 5.1

purity

25 3.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology