corruptions

Noun

corruption (countable and uncountable, plural corruptions)

1. The act of corrupting or of impairing integrity, virtue, or moral principle; the state of being corrupted or debased; loss of purity or integrity.
   • It was necessary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, […] to exite popular indignation against them.1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   depravity, wickedness, impurity, bribery, debasement, evil, sinfulness, baseness, defilement, degeneracy

2. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration.
   • The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject of very universal inquiry; for corruption is a reciprocal to generation.1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...

   Synonyms:

   adulteration, contamination, debasement, defilement, dirtying, soiling, tainting, graft, decay, decomposition

3. The product of corruption; putrid matter.
   • Think of wandering amid sepulchral ruins, of stumbling over the bones of the dead, of encountering what I cannot describe,—the horror of being among those who are neither the living or the dead;—those dark and shadowless things that sport themselves with the reliques of the dead, and feast and love...1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 154

   Synonyms:

   decay, putrescence, rot

4. The decomposition of biological matter.
5. Unethical administrative or executive practices (in government or business), including bribery (offering or receiving bribes), conflicts of interest, nepotism, embezzlement, and so on.

   Synonyms:

   venality

6. The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or transmission media.
   • The idea of having a time lag is to allow for situations when a corruption of some type affects the source server. If a corruption occurs, you do not want it to replicate to the copy of the database, so the time lag gives administrators the opportunity to recognize that a problem exists and then to...2008, Tony Redmond, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with SP1

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