Definitions

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  • noun Any device used to deactivate something
  • noun A chamber filled with iron filings or other material used to remove excess oxygen or other substances from water

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Examples

  • Any person entering this field automatically set off the alarm system, unless provided with some kind of deactivator mechanism.

    Tom Swift Jr And His Atomic Earth Blaster Lawrence, James Duncan 1954

  • After a while, I began to search for oil-solvable precipitants for copper, and I found the first good metal deactivator for petroleum products.

    Charles J. Pedersen - Autobiography 1988

  • Here, the deactivator and the activator are combined to predict the outcome.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer Davis et al. 2010

  • The strong activator cTnIR193H still exerted a dominant effect over the deactivator cTnCG159D to slow relaxation and shorten resting sarcomere length.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer Davis et al. 2010

  • Gangbanger Now Hal Baskin is a "gang deactivator," a peace broker, a role model, and a candidate.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • It is therefore possible that individuals could inherit one CM mutant myofilament activator allele and one CM mutant deactivator allele.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer Davis et al. 2010

  • The degree of neutralization in activator/deactivator combinations is represented by the trapezoid in which the spectrum of colors (red to purple to blue) depicts the addition of two opposing activating alleles of different strengths.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer Davis et al. 2010

  • Findings here show that combining CM mutants with opposing effects on myofilament function (activator + deactivator) produces a hybrid outcome and evidence of functional neutralization at the intact myocyte level.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer Davis et al. 2010

  • This is evident from the deactivator + activator combination

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer Davis et al. 2010

  • Thus, co-transduction of intact adult cardiac myocytes with CM myofilament deactivator cTnCG159D together with myofilament activator cTnIR193H was examined.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jennifer Davis et al. 2010

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