1. tainter - Noun
2. Tainter - Proper noun
tainter (plural tainters)
Agent noun of taint: someone or something that taints.
Tainter (plural Tainters)
A surname
For an overwhelming majority of the time since the evolution of Homo sapiens, Tainter contends, we organized ourselves in small and relatively egalitarian kinship-based communities. Source: Internet
Tainter had originally stood on the roof of the school building and transmitted to Bell at the window of his laboratory. Source: Internet
Mims 1982, p. 10. In an April 1, 1880 Washington, D.C. experiment, Bell and Tainter communicated some convert meters along an alleyway to the laboratory's rear window. Source: Internet
Tainter was granted Patent No. 385886 for it on July 10, 1888. Source: Internet
Even a short-term failure of the financial system, Tainter worries, might be enough to trip supply chains to a halt. Source: Internet
The more a population is squeezed, Tainter warns, the larger the share that “must be allocated to legitimization or coercion.” Source: Internet