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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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His tactics turned out to be sterile, dull and most importantly ineffective.
Treatment with moisture-retentive dressings consisted of either a hydrocolloid, an alginate, or sterile gauze.
All stock particle suspensions were made freshly in sterile deionized water.
There is also a sense of joy and sheer pleasure in composing and in sound worlds which comes across, no sterile academicism.
Open incisions are packed with sterile, saline-soaked laparotomy sponges and then covered with sterile drapes.
Yet thousands of churches see empty altars week after week and year after year and cover this sterile situation by misapplying the Scripture.

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