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autosterilization

noun

Etymology

From auto- + sterilization.

  1. derived from sterilis
  2. borrowed from stérile
  3. suffixed as sterilization — “sterile + ization”
  4. prefixed as autosterilization — “auto + sterilization”

Definitions

  1. Sterilization without the intervention of external agents.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for autosterilization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA