affector
English
Noun
affector (plural affectors)
- A nerve cell that directly activates a muscle
- 2015 July 10, “Data-Driven Method to Estimate Nonlinear Chemical Equivalence”, in PLOS ONE, :
- This condition is intuitive: if the sigmoid-like positive and negative affectors that compose the biphasic equation were positioned “further apart” by increasing the interval lnK + − lnK - (e.g., Fig B in S1 File ), then saturation levels for the positive affector more closely match the starting levels of the negative affector, and in sigmoid models that exhibit very good agreement with the overall biphasic relationship.
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From affectō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /afˈfek.tor/, [äfˈfɛkt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /afˈfek.tor/, [äfˈfɛkt̪or]
Verb
affector (present infinitive affectārī, perfect active affectātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to strive eagerly after
- to have an inclination for, to become attached to
Conjugation
References
- “affector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- affector in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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