pollutions
- 1Plural of pollution. Rare, used mainly in technical writing for different kinds of pollution.
Environmental reports often distinguish between the various pollutions affecting coastal waters.
Industrial and agricultural pollutions combine to degrade the entire watershed.
Note
A plural the mass noun rarely needs. In every one of its meanings, pollution usually stays uncountable, so the plural signals that separate kinds or instances are being counted, as in the noise and light pollutions of a city. When single offending substances are meant, pollutants is the plainer word, since one meaning of pollution is simply "a pollutant." The phrase types of pollution is a common alternative to the plural.
pollutions is a form of pollution
pollution, noun: The contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light, and similar disturbances. Full entry
- Forms
- pollutionpollutions plural
- Spelling
- pollution → pollutions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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