AUTOCLAVE
- to subject to high temperature and pressure in a certain kind of vessel [v AUTOCLAVED, AUTOCLAVES, AUTOCLAVING]
- A strong, heated container used for chemical reactions and other processes using high pressures and temperatures, e.g., steam sterilization
- (French) a kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid [n -S] / to heat in an autoclave [v AUTOCLAVED, AUTOCLAVING, AUTOCLAVES]