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enhancer

noun
/ɪnˈhɑːnsə/UK/ɪnˈhænsɚ/US

Etymology

From enhance + -er.

  1. derived from in
  2. derived from *altiare✻ — “raise”
  3. derived from enhaucier — “enhance, raise”
  4. inherited from enhauncen
  5. suffixed as enhancer — “enhance + er”

Definitions

  1. Something that enhances.

  2. A short region of DNA that can increase transcription of genes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for enhancer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA