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Sterile or sterility may refer to:

• Asepsis, a state of being free from biological contaminants
• Sterile (archaeology), a sediment deposit which contains no evidence of human activity
• Sterilization (microbiology), any process that eliminates or kills all forms of life or removes them from an item or a field
• Sterility (physiology), an inability of a living organism to effect sexual reproduction
  • Infertility, a medical condition which prevents a person, an animal or a plant from bearing children, especially through natural means
• Sterile Records, a record label which was formed by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K of the post-industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions in London in 1979