Taint or tainted may refer to:

Impurities

Contamination Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that renders something unsuitable, unfit or harmful for the physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc. Types of contamination Within the scien ...

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

wine fault A wine fault is a sensory-associated (organoleptic) characteristic of a wine that is unpleasant, and may include elements of taste, smell, or appearance, elements that may arise from a "chemical or a microbial origin", where particular sensory expe ...

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

Infection An infection is the invasion of tissue (biology), tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host (biology), host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmis ...

, the colonization of a host organism by parasites ** Taint (legal), 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 ris ...

, 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), a sludge-metal band from Wales * ''The Taint'' (film), a 1915 American silent film * ''Tainted'' (film), a 1987 American film * "Tainted" (song), a 2002 song by Slum Village featuring Dwele

Other uses

* Taint (anatomy), colloquial name for the space between the anus and genitals; the perineum *

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. A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. ...

, an archaic form, referring to a color mixed with white * Tainted kernel, when proprietary modules are loaded into Linux {{disambiguation