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Disinfection vs Sanitization - What's the difference?

disinfection | sanitization |

As nouns the difference between disinfection and sanitization

is that disinfection is treatment with disinfectant materials in order to destroy harmful microorganisms while sanitization is the act of sanitizing something, or something that has been sanitized.

disinfection

English

Noun

(-)
  • Treatment with disinfectant materials in order to destroy harmful microorganisms

    • Related terms

    * disinfect * disinfectant

    sanitization

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sanitisation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of sanitizing something, or something that has been sanitized
  • the process of editing a security-classified document in order to reduce its classification level