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sterilization


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sterilization  \Ster`il*i*za"tion\,  n.  (Biol.) 
  The  act  or  process  of  sterilizing,  or  rendering  sterile; 
  also  the  state  of  being  sterile. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sterilization 
  n  1:  the  act  of  making  an  organism  barren  or  infertile  (unable  to 
  reproduce)  [syn:  {sterilisation}] 
  2:  the  procedure  of  making  some  object  free  of  live  bacteria  of 
  other  microorganisms  (usually  by  heat  or  chemical  means) 
  [syn:  {sterilsation}] 




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