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Meaning of "sterility" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STERILITY

sterility  [stəˈrɪlətɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STERILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sterility is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STERILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sterility

Sterile or sterility may refer to: ▪ Sterilization, a term referring to any process that eliminates or kills all forms of life from an item or field ▪ Sterility, an inability of a living organism to effect sexual reproduction ▪ Infertility, the condition of a person being unable to bear children, especially through natural means ▪ Asepsis, a state of being free from biological contaminants ▪ Sterile deposit, a geological strata free of archaeological materials ▪ Sterile Records, a record label formed in London in 1979 by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K of the post-industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions...

Definition of sterility in the English dictionary

The first definition of sterility in the dictionary is the inability to produce offspring; infertility. Other definition of sterility is the state of being free from living, esp pathogenic, microorganisms; asepsis. Sterility is also the fact of not producing or bearing seeds, fruit, spores, stamens, or pistils.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STERILITY


applicability
əˌplɪkəˈbɪlətɪ
comprehensibility
ˌkɒmprɪhɛnsəˈbɪlətɪ
controllability
kənˌtrəʊləˈbɪlətɪ
creditability
ˌkrɛdɪtəˈbɪlətɪ
enforceability
ɪnˈfɔːsəˈbɪlətɪ
flammability
ˌflæməˈbɪlətɪ
formability
ˌfɔːməˈbɪlətɪ
respectability
rɪˌspɛktəˈbɪlətɪ
sociability
ˌsəʊʃəˈbɪlətɪ
suitability
ˌsuːtəˈbɪlətɪ
sustainability
səˌsteɪnəˈbɪlətɪ
tunability
ˌtjuːnəˈbɪlətɪ
ultravirility
ˌʌltrəvɪˈrɪlətɪ
unavailability
ˌʌnəˌveɪləˈbɪlətɪ
variability
ˌvɛərɪəˈbɪlətɪ
versatility
ˌvɜːsəˈtɪlətɪ
viability
ˌvaɪəˈbɪlətɪ
virility
vɪˈrɪlətɪ
volatility
ˌvɒləˈtɪlətɪ
vulnerability
ˌvʌlnərəˈbɪlətɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STERILITY

steric
sterical
sterically
sterigma
sterilant
sterile
sterilely
sterilisable
sterilisation
sterilise
steriliser
sterilizable
sterilization
sterilize
sterilizer
sterlet
sterling
sterling area
sterling bloc
sterling silver

WORDS THAT END LIKE STERILITY

ability
accessibility
availability
capability
compatibility
disability
durability
eligibility
facility
flexibility
functionality
liability
mobility
nobility
possibility
probability
reliability
responsibility
stability
utility
visibility

Synonyms and antonyms of sterility in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STERILITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sterility» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of sterility

Translation of «sterility» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STERILITY

Find out the translation of sterility to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sterility from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sterility» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不育
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

esterilidad
570 millions of speakers

English

sterility
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बाँझपन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العقم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бесплодие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esterilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বন্ধ্যতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

stérilité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kemandulan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sterilität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不妊
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불임
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Steril
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô khuẩn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மலட்டுத்தன்மை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वंध्यत्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kısırlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sterilità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sterylność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безплідність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sterilitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στειρότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onvrugbaarheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sterilitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sterilitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sterility

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STERILITY»

The term «sterility» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.048 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STERILITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sterility» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sterility» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sterility

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3 QUOTES WITH «STERILITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sterility.
1
Hilaire Belloc
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
2
Alan Dean Foster
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
3
James Stephens
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate is finality, and finality is the greatest evil which can happen in a world of movement.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STERILITY»

Discover the use of sterility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sterility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Parenteral Quality Control: Sterility, Pyrogen, Particulate, ...
Emphasize testing methodologies for the evaluation of package integrity, finished product contamination, and sterility, the book is a guide to testing and assuring that products for injecting drugs are sterile, free from pyrogenicity, and ...
Michael K. Akers, Dan Larrimore, Dana Guazzo, 2002
2
Achieving Sterility in Medical and Pharmaceutical Products
Achieving Sterility in Medical and Pharmaceutical Products discusses sterilization approaches that utilize saturated steam dry heat ethylene oxide gamma radiation sterile filtration and more!
Nigel Halls, 1994
3
Fertility and Sterility: A Current Overview
This is the most complete and up-to-date medical reference work available on the newest clinical developments and scientific findings dealing with contraception, infertility, the endocrinology of reproduction, andrology, reproductive ...
J. Bringer, B. Hedon, 1995
4
Radiobiology for the Radiologist
of. Radiation. Radiation Sterility — Comparing Male and Female Ploydactyly, Huntington's chorea. Germ-Cell Production and Radiation Effects on Fertility Review of Basic Genetics Mutations Mendelian Chromosomal Changes Multifactorial ...
Eric J. Hall, Amato J. Giaccia, 2006
5
Heterosis and Hybrid Rice Breeding
Rice, being a self-pollinating crop, must involve use of an effective male sterility system to develop and produce F1 hybrid varieties. Major male sterility systems used for hybrid rice breeding in China and elsewhere are cytoplasmic-genetic and ...
Sant S. Virmani, 1994
6
Male sterility and motility disorders: etiological factors ...
This volume is the proceedings of the International Symposium on Male Sterility for Motility Disorders, held in Paris, January 30-31, 1998.
S. Hamamah, 1999
7
Microbial Limit and Bioburden Tests: Validation Approaches ...
14): <0.25 IU/mL Endotoxin: <0.25 EU/mL Sterility (2.6.1): complies with test for sterility Sterility: complies with test for sterility Bioburden (2.6.12): NMT 100 CFU/ mL Endotoxin (2.6.14): <0.25 IU/mL Guideline. b Guideline; use membrane ...
Lucia Clontz, 2008
8
Environmental Monitoring for Cleanrooms and Controlled ...
The sterility suite is subject to the same sanitization procedures (i.e., choice and rotation of validated sanitizers, cleaning method, and cleaning frequency) as the filling suite. □ The sterility suite is subject to the same type of restricted access as  ...
Anne Marie Dixon, 2006
9
The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On ...
Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids — Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close interbreeding, removed by domestication — Laws govorning the sterility of hybrids— Sterility not a special endowment, ...
Charles Darwin, 2009
10
Fertility and Sterility in Marriage - Their Voluntary ...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the ...
H. Van De Velde, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STERILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sterility is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Pharmacy Recalls Compounded Drugs Due to Sterility Concerns
The pharmacy issued the recall after a recent inspection identified an issue with sterility assurance. All recalled products have a label that includes the pharmacy ... «Pharmacy Times, Jul 15»
2
Economic Sterility of the January 8 Coalition
Prior to the presidential election, I wrote in this column about this sterility of development thanking in Maithripala Sirisena's election programme: 'Champika ... «Lankaweb, Jul 15»
3
First Lab-Grown Sperm
NEWS · Health & Sports News; First Lab-Grown Sperm. Sterility. © Getty Images ... News: First Lab-Grown Sperm Could Be Breakthrough For Male Sterility. «AskMen, May 15»
4
Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals carbohydrate and lipid …
Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals carbohydrate and lipid metabolism blocks in Brassica napus L. male sterility induced by the chemical hybridization ... «BMC Blogs Network, Mar 15»
5
WHO, UNICEF deny Kenyan bishops' claim that they supplied …
"When sterility is induced in any woman, without her knowledge and/or consent, it amounts to a monumental human rights abuse," he said in the statement. «National Catholic Reporter, Mar 15»
6
Injectable Antibiotics Recalled Due to Sterility Concerns
Intravenous administration of non-sterile products may result in a site-specific or systemic infection, potentially leading to hospitalization, significant morbidity, ... «Pharmacy Times, Feb 15»
7
Colistimethate, Rifampin Recalled Due to Sterility Concerns
Heritage Pharmaceuticals has initiated a nationwide voluntary recall of ten lots of colistimethate for injection (150 mg) and three lots of rifampin for injection (600 ... «Medscape, Feb 15»
8
How Does Mumps Cause Sterility in Adults?
Mumps is a disease that gives children fevers and big, comical hamster-faces. In adults, it can cause sterility. How does a childhood disease render someone ... «io9, Jan 15»
9
The Political Sterility of Jon Stewart
Political satire has a long and honorable history: Aristophanes, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift; W.S. Gilbert; George Orwell; Lenny Bruce; Dick Gregory; ... «Reason, Nov 14»
10
The Essentials of Sterility Assurance
It is critical that infection preventionists understand the principles and practices related to sterility assurance so that they may assist their institutions' sterile ... «Infection Control Today, Jul 14»

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