1. Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.
2. Fig.: Formed in a fixed, unchangeable manner; as, stereotyped opinions.
Our civilization, with its stereotyped ways and smooth conventionalities.
J. C. Shairp. Stereotyper
(Ste"re*o*ty`per) n. One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a
stereotype foundry.
Stereotypery
(Ste"re*o*ty`per*y) n.
1. The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates.
2. A place where stereotype plates are made; a stereotype foundry.
Stereotypic
(Ste`re*o*typ"ic) a. Of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotype plates.
Stereotypist
(Ste"re*o*ty`pist) n. A stereotyper.
Stereotypographer
(Ste`re*o*ty*pog"ra*pher) n. A stereotype printer.
Stereotypography
(Ste`re*o*ty*pog"ra*phy) n. [Stereo- + typography.] The act or art of printing from
stereotype plates.
Stereotypy
(Ste"re*o*ty`py) n. [Cf. F. stéréotypie.] The art or process of making stereotype plates.
Sterhydraulic
(Ster`hy*drau"lic) a. [Stereo- + hydraulic.] Pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic
press; resembling such a press in action or principle.
Sterhydraulic press, an hydraulic press producing pressure or motion by the introduction of a solid
substance (as a long rod, or a cord wound on a roller) into a cylinder previously filled with a liquid.
Sterile
(Ster"ile) a. [F. stérile, L. sterilis, akin to Gr. stereo`s stiff, solid, stei^ros barren, stei^ra a cow
that has not calved, Goth. stairo, fem., barren. See Stare to gaze.]
1. Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a
sterile year.
2. (Biol.) (a) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or
bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens. (b) Free from reproductive spores or
germs; as, a sterile fluid.
3. Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.
Sterility
(Ste*ril"i*ty) n. [L. sterilitas: cf. F. stérilité.]
1. The quality or condition of being sterile.
2. (Biol.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.
Sterilization
(Ster`il*i*za"tion) n. (Biol.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the
state of being sterile.
Sterilize
(Ster"il*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sterilized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sterilizing ] [Cf. F. stériliser.]
1. To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. [R.] "Sterilizing the earth."
Woodward.
