antirepair

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ repair

Adjective[edit]

antirepair (not comparable)

  1. Preventing or opposing the repair of equipment.
    • 2022, Aaron Perzanowski, The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own, page 177:
      Under existing antitrust doctrine, there are four distinct legal theories that could be used to target these antirepair policies.
  2. (genetics) Inhibiting the repair of damaged DNA.
    an antirepair pathway
    an antirepair effect
    • 2017, Alexey Moskalev, ‎ Alexander Vaiserman, Epigenetics of Aging and Longevity, page 174:
      The increased levels of mature miRNAs could play a role in the DNA damage response by (1) decreasing the levels of antirepair genes (such as the antirecombinases, Srs2, PARI, RTEL1 [122]) (2) downregulating DDR proteins through a feedback regulation loop to restore pre-DNA damage levels.
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