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Word Meanings - PASTEURIZATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140º F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.

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  • CHECKWORK
    Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
  • PREVENTATIVE
    That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
  • DESTROYABLE
    Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • DEVISABLE
    1. Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived. 2. Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will.
  • CHECKREIN
    1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • CONTAINMENT
    That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
  • PREVENTABLE
    Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
  • PREVENTINGLY
    So as to prevent or hinder.
  • DEVISAL
    A devising. Whitney.
  • PASTEURIZER
    One that Pasteurizes, specif. an apparatus for heating and agitating, fluid.
  • PREVENT
    1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
  • CHECKLATON
    1. Ciclatoun. 2. Gilded leather. Spenser.
  • PASTEURIAN
    Of or pertaining to Pasteur.
  • PROCESSIONARY
    Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
  • CHECKERBERRY
    A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen . Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry .
  • PREVENTABILITY
    The quality or state of being preventable.
  • TEMPERATURE
    Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or
  • CONTAINANT
    A container.
  • IMPREVENTABLE
    Not preventable; invitable.
  • IMPREVENTABILITY
    The state or quality of being impreventable.
  • SELF-DESTROYER
    One who destroys himself; a suicide.
  • ACID PROCESS
    That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
  • DISTEMPERATURE
    1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
  • TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
    A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
  • POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
  • BARREL PROCESS
    A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
  • CONTEMPERATURE
    The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.

 

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