inhibitor

See also: Inhibitor

English

Etymology

inhibit +‎ -or

Noun

inhibitor (plural inhibitors)

1. One who or that which inhibits.

   I found daily meditation to be a useful inhibitor of negative thoughts.

2. (chemistry) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction.
3. (biology) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific biological process

Derived terms

Terms derived from inhibitor

• Bowman-Birk protease inhibitor
• enzyme inhibitor
• inhibitory
• neuroinhibitor

• noninhibitor
• ovoinhibitor
• sympathoinhibitor
• vasoinhibitor

Translations

substance slowing a reaction

• Afrikaans: inhibeerder
• Azerbaijani: ingibitor
• Basque: inhibitzaile
• Bulgarian: инхибитор (bg) (inkhibitor)
• Chichewa: woletsa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 抑制劑

• Czech: inhibitor m zpomalovač m
• Danish: hæmmer
• Dutch: inhibitor m, remmer (nl) m
• Estonian: inhibiitor
• Finnish: estoaine, inhibiittori (fi)
• French: inhibiteur (fr) m
• Georgian: ინჰიბიტორი (inhibiṭori)
• German: Inhibitor m
• Gujarati: બાધક (Bādhaka)

• Icelandic: hemill (is) m
• Italian: inibitore
• Kazakh: ингибиторы m pl (ïngïbïtorı)
• Lithuanian: inhibitorius
• Malay: perencat
• Mongolian: дарангуйлагч (mn) (darangujlagč)
• Polish: inhibitor (pl) m
• Portuguese: inibidor
• Romanian: inhibitor (ro)
• Russian: ингиби́тор (ru) m (ingibítor)
• Sotho: sesitisa
• Spanish: inhibidor
• Swahili: kiviza
• Tagalog: panansala
• Telugu: నిరోధకము (nirōdhakamu)
• Yiddish: ינכיבאַטער‎‎ (inkhibater)

See also

• catalyst

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Czech

Noun

inhibitor m

1. inhibitor