Definition of Sterilizing

1. Verb. (present participle of sterilize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sterilizing

1. sterilize [v] - See also: sterilize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterilizing

steriliser
sterilisers
sterilises
sterilising
sterilities
sterility
sterilizable
sterilizated
sterilization
sterilizations
sterilize
sterilized
sterilizer
sterilizers
sterilizes
sterilizing
sterino
sterinos
sterlet
sterlets
sterling
sterling(a)
sterling area
sterling bloc
sterling silver
sterlinghillite
sterlingly
sterlingness
sterlingnesses
sterlings

Literary usage of Sterilizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Handbook of Invalid Cooking for the Use of Nurses in Training-schools by Mary A. Boland (1893)
"The frame is to be set in a kettle with water in the bottom, which on boiling produces steam, the heat of which does the sterilizing.1 This is an easy ..."

2. A Handbook of Invalid Cooking for the Use of Nurses in Training-schools by Mary A. Boland (1893)
"The frame is to be set in a kettle with water in the bottom, which on boiling produces steam, the heat of which does the sterilizing.1 This is an easy ..."

3. Chloride of Lime in Sanitation by Albert Huntington Hooker (1913)
"Its sterilizing effect is substantial and satisfactory, as is well known through numerous investigations at Boston, Mass., Red Bank, NJ, and Baltimore, Md., ..."

4. Condensed Milk and Milk Powder: Prepared for the Use of Milk Condenseries by Otto Frederick Hunziker (1920)
"In the foregoing discussion of the sterilizing process no mention was made of methods to standardize the behavior of evaporated milk toward the sterilizing ..."

5. Modern Dental Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Including the by John Peter Buckley (1910)
"The methods and means of sterilizing tooth-structure and the field of operation have been fully discussed in the description of the various operations which ..."

6. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"The meeting closed by the exhibition by Dr. CA Earle, of Seibert's Sterilizing Milk Apparatus, and a paper by Dr. T. Melville Hardie. ..."

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