Contamination

nounverified·updated May 9, 2026

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Type of incident involving the introduction of data of one security classification or security category into data of a lower security classification or different security category.

polysemous

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

6 surface forms

synonym: contaminantpollutiontaint
plural: Contaminations
possessive: Contamination's
pluralpossessive: Contaminations'

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