Definizione monolingua

pollution

pollution (plural pollutions)

1. The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.

   Nobody visits the river any more because of all the pollution.

2. Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
3. (archaic) Physical defilement
4. (medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
   • 1839: Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon, Blanchard, p. 492 defines POLLUTION as:

     The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution or Masturbation (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name Nocturnal pollution, Exoneirosis, Oneirogmos, Oneirogonos, Gonorrhœa dormientium, G. oneirogonos, G. Vera, G. libidinosa, Profluvium Seminis, Spermatorrhœa, Paroniria salax, Night pollution.

Definizione dizionario pollution

	inquinamento
	the contamination of the environment by harmful substances
	The indirect or direct alteration of the biological, thermal, physical, or radioactive properties of any medium in such a way as to create a hazard or potential hazard to human health or to the health, safety or welfare of any living species.(Source: ALL)

	inquinante
	something that pollutes; a pollutant

contaminazione

immissione

inquinamento ambientale

polluzione

Altri significati:

The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.

Something that pollutes; a pollutant.

(archaic) Physical defilement