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affector

affector noun: a nerve cell that directly activates a muscle.

Noun

affector (plural affectors)

  1. A nerve cell that directly activates a muscle
    • 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...2015 July 10, “Data-Driven Method to Estimate Nonlinear Chemical Equivalence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of affector

pluralaffectors

Origin of affector

From affect + -or.

Questions about affector

What does affector mean?
Affector means a nerve cell that directly activates a muscle.
What part of speech is affector?
Affector is a noun.
What is the plural of affector?
The plural of affector is affectors.

Words near affector in the dictionary

  1. affectlessly
  2. affectlessness
  3. affectomotor
  4. affectonym
  5. affectonyms
  6. affector
  7. affectors
  8. affectour
  9. affectours
  10. affects
  11. affectual

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