inducer

English

Etymology

induce +‎ -er

Noun

inducer (plural inducers)

1. One who, or that which, induces.

   Antonym: inducee

   • 2008, Gert ten Hoopen, Ryota Miyauchi, Yoshitaka Nakajima, “Time-Based Illusions in the Auditory Mode”, in Simon Grondin, editor, Psychology of Time, Bingley, W.Y.: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 174:

     Warren, Bashford, Healy, and Brubaker (1994) reported increases in the apparent duration of the fainter sound (the inducee), which alternated with a sound of higher intensity (the inducer). The inducer was a 70 dB, 1 kHz sine tone, and the inducee was a 66 dB sine tone, varying between nine frequency values, one value also 1 kHz, and the other eight frequencies were 1, 2, 6, and 10 semitones (STs) higher or lower. Both the inducer and the inducee lasted 200 ms.

2. A molecule that starts gene expression.

Translations

a molecule that starts gene expression

• Arabic: مُحفز
• Czech: induktor m
• German: Induktor (de)

Anagrams

• dice run, uncried