pasteurisation

• pasteurization

From French pasteurisation, from the surname of its inventor, Louis Pasteur.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

pasteurisation (countable and uncountable, plural pasteurisations)

1. (British spelling) Heat-treatment of a perishable food to destroy heat-sensitive vegetative cells followed by immediate cooling to limit growth of the surviving cells and germination of spores.
   • 1959 March, R. C. Rley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 155, 157:

     Lorries collect the milk from the various outlying farms, whence it is taken to the district distribution centre to undergo pasteurisation.

• pasteurise

• IPA^(key): /pas.tœ.ʁi.za.sjɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

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pasteurisation f (plural pasteurisations)

1. pasteurisation

• “pasteurisation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.