Meaning

1 senses

  1. To sterilize laboratory equipment in an autoclave.

    subject to the action of an autoclave

Examples

2 sentences

  1. I left my phone in the autoclave.

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  2. The autoclave broke my phone.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

Borrowed from French autoclave, formed with prefix auto- + Latin clavis (“key”).

Borrowed from French autoclave, formed with prefix auto- + Latin clavis (“key”).

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Forms

autoclaves, autoclaving, autoclaved, autoclaved
Base formautoclave · to autoclave
3rd person singularautoclaves
Present participleautoclaving
Past simpleautoclaved
Past participleautoclaved

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyautoclave
he, she, itautoclaves

Past simpleLesson

all personsautoclaved

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave autoclaved
he, she, ithas autoclaved

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill autoclave

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
autoautobahnautobiographicalautobiographyautocracyautocratautocraticautodidact
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