Usually means: Elimination of all living organisms.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. sterilization: Merriam-Webster
  2. sterilization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sterilization: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sterilization: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sterilization: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sterilization, sterilization: Wordnik
  7. sterilization: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sterilization: Wiktionary
  9. sterilization: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sterilization: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sterilization: Dictionary.com
  12. sterilization: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Sterilization (disambiguation), Sterilization (economics), Sterilization (medicine), Sterilization (microbiology), Sterilization: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sterilization: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sterilization: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sterilization: Rhymezone
  17. Sterilization: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sterilization: FreeDictionary.org
  19. sterilization: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sterilization: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Sterilization: Investopedia
  3. Sterilization: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sterilization: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. sterilization: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. International Publications (No longer online)
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  7. sterilization: Medical dictionary
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sterilization: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See sterilize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sterilization)

noun:  (uncountable) The process of treating something to kill or inactivate microorganisms.
noun:  (uncountable) A procedure to permanently prevent an organism from reproducing.
noun:  (countable) An instance of a sterilization procedure.
noun:  (uncountable) A monetary policy operation used to offset a foreign exchange intervention.

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