Defn: The art or process of making stereotype plates.
STERHYDRAULIC
Ster`hy*drau"lic, a. Etym: [Stereo- + hydraulic.]
Defn: 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. Etym: [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. Etym: [L. sterilitas: cf. F. stérilité.]
1. The quality or condition of being sterile.
2. (Biol.)