Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To convert (input energy of one form) into output energy of another form.
  • transitive verb To transfer (genetic material or characteristics) from one bacterial cell to another. Used of a bacteriophage or plasmid.

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  • verb transitive To convert energy from one form to another
  • verb transitive, biology To transfer genetic material from one bacterial cell to another

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  • verb cause transduction (of energy forms)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Back-formation from transducer.]

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Examples

  • Have you ever noticed magical abilities to see, feel, hear, move and transduce energy?

    All Things Girl » All Things Girl » 2009 » September 2009

  • Have you ever noticed magical abilities to see, feel, hear, move and transduce energy?

    All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Book Review: Indigo Awakening by Dr. Janine Talty, DO 2009

  • Mainly I study the sense of touch, and what the molecules are that transduce touch.

    Martin Chalfie - Interview 2008

  • They transduce signals from inside the cell out, and outside the cell in.

    A Voice from the Middle Ground 2007

  • You have people who are drawing coarse hair across strings, which in turn produces sounds which are transduce in an esquisitely designed resonance cavity made of wood.

    Do Atheists Exist? Sean 2008

  • These guys could transduce their extremely exotic genes to their hosts in rare lateral gene transfer events similar, for instance, to those thought to account for intronless pseudogenes integration into the genome of a reverse-transcribed RNA.

    An argument is ORFaned - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Soon after I returned to Stanford, I conceived of using SV40 as a means for introducing new genes into mammalian cells much in the way that bacteriophage transduce cellular DNA among infected cells.

    Paul Berg - Autobiography 1980

  • Additionally, cocal vectors are more resistant to inactivation by human serum than VSV-G-pseudotyped vectors, and efficiently transduce human CD34

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Grant D Trobridge 2010

  • AAV serotype 2 (AAV2) is the most widely used AAV vector in clinical trials based largely on its ability to transduce neural cells in the rodent and primate brain.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Eleni A Markakis 2010

  • [36], Duf too might transduce signals to cytoskeletal elements via its intracellular domain, to ensure successful myoblast fusion.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Sarada Bulchand et al. 2010

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