Sanitation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sanitation \San`i*ta"tion\, n.
     The act of rendering sanitary; the science of sanitary
     conditions; the preservation of health; the use of sanitary
     measures; hygiene.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           How much sanitation has advanced during the last half
           century.                                 --H.
                                                    Hartshorne.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sanitation
       n 1: the state of being clean and conducive to health
       2: making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing
          [syn: {sanitization}, {sanitisation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "sanitation":
     antisepsis, decontamination, disinfection, disinfestation,
     epidemiology, flash pasteurization, fumigation, health physics,
     hygenics, hygiene, hygienics, mental hygiene, pasteurization,
     preventive dentistry, preventive medicine, prophylactic psychology,
     prophylactodontia, prophylaxis, public health, sterilization