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Noun
/kənˈtājən/,
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contagions, plural;
  1. The communication of disease from one person to another by close contact
    • - the rooms held no risk of contagion
  2. A disease spread in such a way

  3. The spreading of a harmful idea or practice
    • - the contagion of disgrace
  4. A contagium

  1. (contagion) contagious disease: any disease easily transmitted by contact
  2. (contagion) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry"
  3. (Contagion (Arena album)) Contagion is the fifth studio album by the British progressive rock band Arena, released in 2003.
  4. (Contagion (novel)) Contagion is a medical thriller written by Dr. Robin Cook.
  5. (contagion) A disease spread by contact; The spread or transmission of such a disease; The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease
  6. (Contagion) Excess correlation of equity or bond returns. For example, under usual conditions we might observe a certain level of correlation of market returns. A period of contagion would be associated with much higher than expected correlation. ...
  7. (Contagion) Term used to describe the spread of economic crises from one country’s market to other countries within close geographic proximity. This term was first used following the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, which began in Thailand and soon spread to other East Asian economies. ...
  8. (Contagion) The action of being followed by a paranormal entity, such as an earthbound spirit from an investigation or a haunted location.
  9. (Contagion) The spread of an individual bank run to several other financial institutions.
  10. Financial contagion refers to the phenomenon when one country's economy is negatively affected because of changes in the asset prices of another country's financial market.
  11. (Contagion) The tendency of an economic crisis to spread from one market to another. In 1997, political instability in Indonesia caused high volatility in their domestic currency, the Rupiah. ...
  12. (3 Contagion) Infects subject with chosen disease.
  13. (CONTAGION) harmful, corrupting influence
  14. (Contagion) Anything that flows across ties.
  15. (Contagion) a phenomenon whereby susceptible persons are influenced towards suicidal behavior through knowledge of another person's suicidal acts
  16. (Contagion) measure of contact or close association between patches
  17. (contagion (financial)) the factors by which crises transmit from market to market or country to country. High levels of leverage by a number of banks create increased risk of ’common creditor’ contagion. ...
  18. (contagion) n. a process whereby operations on objects of differing types (e.g., arithmetic on mixed types of numbers) produce a result whose type is controlled by the dominance of one argument's type over the types of the other arguments. See Section 12.1.1.2 (Contagion in Numeric Operations).
  19. Contagion in paranormal research is when someone's impressions or data are influenced, consciously or unconsciously, bu outside opinion or historical facts.
  20. Contagion refers to the idea that financial crises may spread from one institution to another, as when a bank run spreads from a few banks to many others, or from one country to another, as when currency crises, sovereign defaults, or stock market crashes spread across countries. ...