decontamination
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6.5
- noun
- /ˌdiːˌkɒntəˈmeɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
descontaminación
- The team conducted a thorough decontamination of the laboratory after the chemical spill.
- evacuations and decontaminations
- decontamination and cleaning
- spore decontamination
Examples
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Send a decontamination team to the chemistry lab.
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After evacuation, a broader choice of decontamination methods is available.
Academic text (2003) -
The decontamination process is not complete.
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Let's get you over to decontamination.
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Proceed to holding area for decontamination.
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The decontamination teams have confirmed cases.. of low-level human infection.
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Captain Salt, if you fail to observe strict decontamination protocol, three things can happen.
Fiction book (1995) -
During decontamination, a spectral scan was done on your tissue.
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The army investigated decontamination options but continued to implement only its containment strategy.
Academic text (1999) -
Please observe decontamination protocol.
Synonyms
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4.6
Making something clean by removing unwanted or harmful substances
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7.1
An act of removing unwanted people, things, or substances by cleaning
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7.4
Using smoke or gas to kill pests and germs in a building
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4.5
To make objects like tools completely free of germs using heat or chemicals
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4.1
Cleaning something with chemicals to kill harmful germs
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6.3
Removing unwanted things or substances from something by cleaning
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3.9
The act of making surfaces or objects clean and free of germs
A process of making something very clean and safe from germs
The process of removing harmful substances to make food or water safe
Antonyms
How Clean
- Specialized
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4.5
- Specialized
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3
4.1
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1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
decontamination = decontaminate (transparent) = de + contaminate + ion
This is a standard noun formation from the verb 'decontaminate', meaning the process or act of decontaminating.
Etymology
Decontamination combines the prefix de- meaning 'remove' and contamination (from contaminate) meaning 'to make something dirty or unsafe'. So decontamination is the process of removing the dirt, dangerous chemicals, or germs that make a person, place, or object unsafe.