See Also: pollution(medicine)
Pollution(money)
pollution(dictionary)
air pollution(encyclopedia)
pollution(dictionary)
air pollution, indoor(medicine)
water pollution(encyclopedia)
noise pollution(dictionary)
tobacco smoke pollution(medicine)

pollution (iou)



pollution noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French, or Latin pollutio(n-), formed as POLLUTE verb: see -ION.]
Ejaculation of semen without sexual intercourse. ME.
a. The action of polluting; the condition of being polluted. Orig., defilement, corruption; now chiefly, the presence in the environment, or the introduction into it, of substances which have harmful or unpleasant effects. LME.
thermal pollution: see THERMAL adjective.
N. G. Clark Pollution of the atmosphere by the emission of smoke. C. Francis Creatures of the deep sea may..hide the effects of pollution by burying toxic matter.
b. A thing that pollutes; a polluted thing. E17.
Desecration; defilement of what is sacred. Now rare. LME.
pollutional adjective causing or constituting pollution E20.