The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sterilizer \Ster"il*i`zer\, n. One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for sterilizing equipment or an organic fluid.
Wiktionary
n. A device used to sterilize, killing pathogens by means such as heat, UV light, chemicals, etc.
WordNet
n. a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments [syn: autoclave, steriliser]
Usage examples of "sterilizer".
I passed my hands under the sterilizer port, I was shocked to see them trembling.
She lowered the infrared sterilizer just above the wound and adjusted the settings.
When the sterilizer beeped off, she deadened the skin with a spray from the cart.
Then, after the morning meal, you can take the portable sterilizer and disinfect the ship.
The helmet and relief options went into the sterilizers, the used clothing into a separator, and the suit and gloves into the recycler.
Brennen got himself another cup of kaffa, downed it standing, and tucked the cup into the sterilizer.
The helmet and relief options went into the sterilizers, the used clothing into a separator, and the suit and gloves into the recycler.
Caleb didn't think a sterilizer was all that necessary but he could see that, to Luray, there was always the chance that some single magic object might be the one to guarantee that her babies would live happily forever.
First the ground had to be bulldozed clean, and then great sterilizers had to lumber back and forth, killing every native seed and root and even the native soil bacteria.