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What does sterile mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sterile? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (not comparable) Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
  2. (figuratively) Barren; unfruitful or unprofitable; lacking ideas or sentiment.
  3. Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.
  4. free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint
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There is also a sense of joy and sheer pleasure in composing and in sound worlds which comes across, no sterile academicism.
All stock particle suspensions were made freshly in sterile deionized water.
From here on my wicker chair it seems incredible that just short decades ago this garden was a dust-bowl, a sterile desert.
Treatment with moisture-retentive dressings consisted of either a hydrocolloid, an alginate, or sterile gauze.
Open incisions are packed with sterile, saline-soaked laparotomy sponges and then covered with sterile drapes.
The exchange transfusion should be done under a radiant warmer using sterile technique.

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