Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that inhibits, as a substance that retards or stops a chemical reaction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
inhibiter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry Any
substance capable ofstopping orslowing a specificchemical reaction . - noun biology Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific
biological process
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a substance that retards or stops an activity
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Examples
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Yes, indeed, guns are fired before leaving the factory and a rust inhibitor is often applied to the exterior and the bore after testfire.
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Yes, indeed, guns are fired before leaving the factory and a rust inhibitor is often applied to the exterior and the bore after testfire.
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At a given signal, the APC labels an inhibitor of a certain protein-degrading enzyme, whereupon the inhibitor is carried to the proteasome and destroyed.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 - Information for the Public 2004
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In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories.
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Steigemann (also one of Huber's Ph.D. students at that time) on the crystallographic refinement of the structure of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor was a success, and our 1975 paper in
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Although some of the ribozymes exhibited high levels of cleavage activity in vitro, none appears to be a potential long term inhibitor in cellulo.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michel V. L�vesque et al. 2010
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In an attempt to copy the Ultra Hair Away process, some of these low cost imitators have tried to combine a hair removal depilatory with a so-called "inhibitor" - in these cases the "inhibitor" does not work because of the harmful effects of the depilatory.
Wil's Ebay E-Store 2010
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(although the proprietary Kindle format might be a short-term inhibitor).
RCR Wireless News 2010
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(although the proprietary Kindle format might be a short-term inhibitor).
RCR Wireless News 2010
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(although the proprietary Kindle format might be a short-term inhibitor).
RCR Wireless News 2010
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