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recombinator

noun

Etymology

From recombine + -ator.

  1. derived from con- — “together”
  2. derived from combīnō — “unite, yoke together”
  3. derived from combiner
  4. inherited from combynyn
  5. prefixed as recombine — “re + combine”
  6. suffixed as recombinator — “recombine + ator”

Definitions

  1. Anything that serves to recombine a set of elements.

    • After the ion source, the facility uses a Pretzel magnet (Knies et al., 1997a) to act as a unique recombinator to simultaneously transmit from 1 to 200 amu ions but attenuate intense matrix-related beams.
    • This brief chapter serves as a summarizing recombinator, a necessary pull to the knot, in order to secure the package in one coherent and complete whole.
    • My personal metaphor for the poet has long been that of filter, or cultural recombinator.

  2. Any of various devices or components that serve to recombine inputs.

    • It can also be achieved by providing an individual recombinator for each cell in the cell vent plug [11-13].
    • Heat evolved by the chemical reaction escapes through the upper side of the recombinator.

  3. A sequence of nucleotides that act as a signal for the recombination of amino acids.

    • If the receptor can be equated with the recombinator, this would imply that more than one type of recombinator may exist and therefore more than one type of breaking enzyme.
    • It is still possible that recombinator sequences could also be part of structural genes, but the number of intragenic recombination sites in the bacteriophage and bacteria makes this improbable in these organisms.
    • Many molecular recombination models propose such recombinator regions from which hybrid DNA is propagated.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for recombinator. 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