"inducer" meaning in English

See inducer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-inducer.wav [Southern-England] Forms: inducers [plural]
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  1. One who, or that which, induces.
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  2. A molecule that starts gene expression. Translations (a molecule that starts gene expression): مُحَفِّز (muḥaffiz) (Arabic), حَاث (ḥāṯ) [masculine] (Arabic), induktor [masculine] (Czech), Induktor (German), inducidor [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-inducer-en-noun-ZOOOmgfI Disambiguation of 'a molecule that starts gene expression': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: apoinducer, autoinducer, neuroinducer

Inflected forms

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