0 (of a living being) unable to produce young, or (of land) unable to produce plants or crops:
1 completely clean and free from dirt and bacteria:
The operation must be carried out under sterile conditions.
2 (of a person or animal) unable to produce young, or of land unable to produce plants or crops:
It was a small oasis surrounded by sterile desert.
4 lacking in imagination, ideas, or enthusiasm:
Suburban housing developments are often sterile environments.
The sterile insect technique has demonstrated its ability to reduce fruit fly populations, and consequently reduce damage to fruit.
Rather than attempting uniform area-wide, inundative releases of sterile males, it may be more cost-effective to preferentially target aggregated populations associated with livestock.
Specimens are extracted under clean and sterile conditions.
In the prison for males, social workers from a non-governmental organization exchanged sterile syringes and needles for used equipment three times a week.
Incubation vessels inside the chamber were filled with sterile sand, inoculated with crushed sandstone-based biofilms and allowed to incubate for 5.5 months.
Samples were collected from fresh faecal pats into sterile plastic containers.
In recording topography, the tendency has been to survey the earthworks in isolation, yielding aesthetic, yet largely sterile, sets of two-dimensional plans.
Climbers were identified to species or morphospecies using vegetative characteristics of sterile specimens collected or observed in the field.
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