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say it: pas-chur-uh-ZAY-shuhn
pasteurization is a noun meaning "partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food". It carries one recorded sense.
partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pasteurization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.