autoclave

Other forms of autoclave

plural

autoclaves·

past tense

autoclaved·

present participle

autoclaving·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about autoclave

What does autoclave mean?

autoclave means "a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in autoclave?

autoclave has 3 syllables: au-to-clave. The stress falls on "au". In IPA it is /ˈɔtoʊˌkleɪv/.

What is another word for autoclave?

Close synonyms include sterilizer, steriliser. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is autoclave a common word?

autoclave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with autoclave?

2 words rhyme with autoclave. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.