Usually means: Elimination of pathogens to prevent infection.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. disinfection: Merriam-Webster
  2. disinfection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disinfection: Collins English Dictionary
  4. disinfection: Vocabulary.com
  5. Disinfection, disinfection: Wordnik
  6. disinfection: Wiktionary
  7. Disinfection, disinfection: Dictionary.com
  8. Disinfection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Disinfection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. disinfection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. disinfection: Rhymezone
  12. Disinfection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. disinfection: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. disinfection: FreeDictionary.org
  15. disinfection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. disinfection: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. disinfection: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disinfection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. disinfection: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  7. disinfection: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (disinfection)

noun:  Treatment with disinfectant materials in order to destroy harmful microorganisms.

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