Associations to the word «Sterilizer»

Wiktionary

STERILIZER, noun. A device used to sterilize, killing pathogens by means such as heat, UV light, chemicals, etc.

Dictionary definition

STERILIZER, noun. A device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats