Taint or tainted may refer to:

Impurities

Contamination Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that spoils, corrupts, infects, makes unfit, or makes inferior a material, physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc. Types of contamination ...

, the presence of a minor and unwanted element (a contaminant) ** a

wine fault A wine fault or defect is an unpleasant characteristic of a wine often resulting from poor winemaking practices or storage conditions, and leading to wine spoilage. Many of the compounds that cause wine faults are already naturally present in wine ...

, such as cork taint, ladybird taint, or phenolic taint, producing undesirable odors or tastes in bottled wine **

Infection An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable dis ...

, the colonization of a host organism by parasites **

Taint (legal) Taint is a term used in the legal field with reference to evidence that has been "tainted" or ruined in some manner. The most common of such usage is with reference to evidence, testimony, identification by witnesses, or confessions that have been ...

, the quality of illegally obtained court evidence **

Taint checking Taint checking is a feature in some computer programming languages, such as Perl, Ruby or Ballerina designed to increase security by preventing malicious users from executing commands on a host computer. Taint checks highlight specific security ri ...

, a feature of some programming languages that prevents unauthorized users from remotely executing commands on a computer

Titles

* ''The Taint'' (novel) (or ''Doctor Who and the Taint''), a novel written by Michael Collier and based on the British television series ''Doctor Who'' *

Taint (band) Taint was a three-piece heavy metal band from Swansea, Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south ...

, a sludge-metal band from Wales * ''The Taint'' (film), a 1915 American silent film * ''Tainted'' (film), a 1987 American film

Other uses

* Taint (anatomy), colloquial name for the space between the anus and scrotum *

Tint In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. Both processes affect the resulting color mixture's relative saturation. A tone is produce ...

, an archaic form, referring to a color mixed with white *

Tainted kernel The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel. It was originally authored in 1991 by Linus Torvalds for his i386-based PC, and it was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU ope ...

, when proprietary modules are loaded into Linux {{disambiguation