Word Meanings - STERILIZER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for sterilizing an organic fluid or mixture.

Related words: (words related to STERILIZER)

• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• STERILIZE
  1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. "Sterilizing the earth." Woodward. To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile. To destroy all
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• FLUID
  Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
• SPECIFY
  To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
• FLUIDAL
  Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; --
• SPECIFIABLE
  Admitting specification; capable of being specified.
• FLUIDRACHM
  See S
• SPECIFICALNESS
  The quality of being specific.
• SPECIFICATION
  1. The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts. 2. The designation
• SPECIFICATE
  To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify. ir M. Hale.
• ORGANICALLY
  In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.
• STERILIZER
  One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for sterilizing an organic fluid or mixture.
• SPECIFICAL
  Specific. Bacon.
• FLUIDITY
  The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aëriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class
• FLUIDIZE
  To render fluid.
• FLUIDOUNCE
  See FLUID
• SPECIFIC
  Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.
• INORGANIC
  Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series
• TELEORGANIC
  Vital; as, teleorganic functions.
• INTERMIXTURE
  1. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle. 2. Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.
• METALLORGANIC
  Metalorganic.