Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not moving or lacking the ability to move.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not motile; stationary; not moving.
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- adjective Not
motile (lacking the ability to move)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement
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Examples
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In the gloom I could make out the doctor, still sitting in the small rocking chair, fully alert, chin cupped in his hand as he considered with bloodshot eye the immotile form before him.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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In the gloom I could make out the doctor, still sitting in the small rocking chair, fully alert, chin cupped in his hand as he considered with bloodshot eye the immotile form before him.
The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009
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“And they currently have forty-two ships searching for an immotile civilization beyond the region of space we Firewalled.”
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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In Drosophila, our screens did not permit the recovery of motility mutants, although immotile larval phenotypes could be recognized in principle by an abnormal distortion of the larval cuticle in the unhatched embryo.
Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes 1995
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Rhesus monkey and human spermatozoa, for example, became totally immotile within 30 seconds of contacting the oil.
7 Medicinals 1992
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While many forms are fixed to the substratum, others are free, being in this condition either motile or immotile.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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_Micrococcus phosphorens_, an immotile round, or almost round organism.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Nearly all cocci are immotile, while the bacilli may or may not be.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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The non-covalent bonds could lead to an inactivation of the surface proteins and the parasites could thus be rendered immotile.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Janina K. Hellmann et al. 2010
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The non-covalent bonds could lead to an inactivation of the surface proteins and the parasites could thus be rendered immotile.
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