decontamination

See also: décontamination

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decontamination

Wikipedia

Etymology

From de- +‎ contamination.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːkənˌtæmɪˈneɪʃən/

• Audio (Mid-Atlantic US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

decontamination (plural decontaminations)

1. The process of removing contamination, particularly the cleaning off of dangerous materials.

Derived terms

• autodecontamination
• biodecontamination

Related terms

• contamination
• decontaminate

Translations

process of removing contamination

Asturian: descontaminación f Catalan: descontaminació f Chinese: Mandarin: 去污染 (qù wūrǎn), 淨化 / 净化 (zh) (jìnghuà), 消毒 (zh) (xiāodú) Finnish: puhdistus (fi), vaarallisten aineiden poisto puhdistamalla, dekontaminaatio, dekontaminointi French: décontamination (fr) f Galician: descontaminación f German: Dekontamination (de) f Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: decontaminazione f Japanese: 除染 (ja) (じょせん, josen) Polish: dekontaminacja f, odkażanie (pl) n Portuguese: descontaminação f Romanian: decontaminare (ro) f Russian: обеззара́живание (ru) n (obezzaráživanije), деконтамина́ция (ru) f (dekontaminácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: деконтаминација f Roman: dekontaminacija (sh) f Spanish: descontaminación (es) f Ukrainian: знезара́ження n (znezarážennja)