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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments;
[syn: autoclave, sterilizer, steriliser]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sterilizer \Ster"il*i`zer\, n.
   One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for
   sterilizing equipment or an organic fluid.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sterilizer
    n 1: a device for heating substances above their boiling point;
         used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical
         instruments [syn: autoclave, sterilizer, steriliser]