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Definition: Sterilisation |
SterilisationNoun1. The act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce). 2. The procedure of making some object free of live bacteria of other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Technique that aims at destroying all living microorganisms in order to eliminate infection ; process whereby one can assume with a reasonable degree of certainly that all microorganisms have been rendered harmless. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: SterilisationSynonym: sterilization (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sterilisation |
| Specialty definitions using "sterilisation": appertized can ♦ Pomeroy type ligation, Pomeroy type ligature ♦ sterilized can ♦ theater sterile supplies unit, theatre sterile supply unit, tinned food, tubal occlusion. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sterilisation" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (sterilization, vasectomy). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sterilisation of the Female (1964) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Sterilisation : scientific barbarism of imperialism. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sterilisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.37% of the time. "Sterilisation" is used about 123 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.37% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Noun (common) | 1.63% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 123 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sterilisation": soil sterilisation. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sterilisation": non-sterilisation. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sterilisation | 24 |
laparoscopic sterilisation | 22 |
de materiel sterilisation | 4 |
packaging sterilisation | 4 |
industrial services sterilisation | 2 |
female sterilisation | 2 |
reel sterilisation | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "sterilisation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 绝育 (sterilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sterilisering (sterilization), sterilisation (sterilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | steriliseren (sterilize), sterilisatie (sterilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sterilointi (sterilization), steriloiminen (sterilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | stérilisation (sterilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sterilisierung (processing, sterilization), Sterilisation (sterilization, vasectomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παστερίωση (pasteurization), αποστείρωση (pasteurization, sterilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sterilizzazione (sterilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 살 (Bactericidal, sterilization, Sterilizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erilisationstay esterilização (sterilization). (various references) стерилизация (sterilization, sterilizations). (various references) esterilización (sterilization). (various references) sterilisering (sterilization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: orientalists. | |
-2 letters: antistories, literations, orientalist. | |
-3 letters: initiators, iterations, lanosities, latinities, literation, natrolites, saintliest, salinities, siltations, solitaires, solitaries, stationers, sterilants, striations, tanistries, tonalities. | |
-4 letters: alienists, anilities, assertion, initiates, initiator, insolates, iteration, lionisers, natrolite, oralities, orientals, ostiaries, relations, resistant, retinitis, saintlier, senoritas, sensorial, serialist, serotinal, siltation, siltstone, sinistral, slatterns, snarliest, solitaire, stationer, sterilant, straitens, striation, strontias. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-i-l-n-o-r-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: liberationists, sterilizations. | |
+2 letters: redistillations. | |
+4 letters: demonstrabilities, dorsiventralities, internationalises, internationalisms, internationalists, interstimulations. | |
+5 letters: interrelationships, rehospitalizations, supranationalities, transportabilities. | |
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