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pasteurisations

pasteurisations is the plural of pasteurisation.

Meaning of pasteurisation

Noun

pasteurisation (countable and uncountable, plural pasteurisations)

  1. (UK) Heat-treatment of a perishable food to destroy heat-sensitive vegetative cells followed by immediate cooling to limit growth of the surviving cells and germination of spores.
    • Lorries collect the milk from the various outlying farms, whence it is taken to the district distribution centre to undergo pasteurisation.1959 March, R. C. Rley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 155, 157

Questions about pasteurisations

What is pasteurisations the plural of?
Pasteurisations is the plural of pasteurisation.

Words near pasteurisations in the dictionary

  1. pasteurelloses
  2. pasteurellosis
  3. Pasteurian
  4. pasteurisable
  5. pasteurisation
  6. pasteurisations
  7. pasteurise
  8. pasteurised
  9. pasteuriser
  10. pasteurisers
  11. pasteurises

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