sterilization
IPA: stɛrʌɫʌzˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (uncountable) The process of treating something to kill or inactivate microorganisms.
- (uncountable) A procedure to permanently prevent an organism from reproducing.
- (countable) An instance of a sterilization procedure.
- (uncountable) A monetary policy operation used to offset a foreign exchange intervention.
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Examples of "sterilization" in Sentences
- Eugenic sterilization is the hot topic in Europe.
- Yes, forced sterilization is the height of compassion.
- A device for the sterilization of containers is described.
- Abortion and sterilization are not the same as extermination.
- “Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.”
- The same disapproval for birth control and sterilization is more difficult to understand, but I accept that it exists.
- Yelling that the restrooms of OK high schools are filled with lesbians and forcible sterilization is social conservatism?
- I know that regret after sterilization is highest among women under 30 and I would do my best to discourage such a person from doing it.
- Short-term sterilization T-bills are just that: FX sterilization securities - rapidly unwound in case of a reversal of volatile flows (India as a case in point).
- Central banks can counterbalance the effect of printing money through a process known as sterilization, in which they sop up money by issuing local-currency bonds.
- In addition, increasing interest rates raises the cost to the central bank of its so-called sterilization operations, in which the bank issues debt to soak up funds from exports and foreign capital inflows.
- The ECB could provide some relief by engaging in "quantitative easing" (creating new Euros), but it has insisted it would do so only with "sterilization" -- taking as much money out of the system as it puts back in.
- Tomatoes really are the easiest vegetable to can, because the period of sterilization is short, and many jars may be canned in a day, or if one is very busy a few jars may be canned daily without the expenditure of a great deal of time.