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

• 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) (inhibitor)
• Catalan: inhibidor m
• 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 (de) m
• Greek: αναστολέας (el) m (anastoléas)
• Gujarati: બાધક (bādhak)

• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: hemill (is) m
• Italian: inibitore
• Kazakh: ингибиторы m pl (ïngïbïtorı)
• Lithuanian: inhibitorius
• Malay: perencat (ms)
• Mongolian: дарангуйлагч (mn) (darangujlagč)
• Polish: inhibitor (pl) m
• Portuguese: inibidor
• Romanian: inhibitor (ro)
• Russian: ингиби́тор (ru) m (ingibítor)
• Sotho: sesitisa
• Spanish: inhibidor (es)
• Swahili: kiviza
• Tagalog: panansala
• Telugu: నిరోధకము (nirōdhakamu)
• Yiddish: אינהיביטאָר‎ (inhibitor)

See also

• catalyst

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Czech

Noun

inhibitor m

1. inhibitor

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.xʲiˈbʲi.tɔr/

Noun

inhibitor m inan

1. (chemistry) inhibitor

Declension

declension of inhibitor

	singular	plural
nominative	inhibitor	inhibitory
genitive	inhibitoru	inhibitorów
dative	inhibitorowi	inhibitorom
accusative	inhibitor	inhibitory
instrumental	inhibitorem	inhibitorami
locative	inhibitorze	inhibitorach
vocative	inhibitorze	inhibitory

Derived terms

• (adjective) inhibitorowy

Further reading

• inhibitor in Polish dictionaries at PWN