cavin
cavin noun: a hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.
Noun (1)
cavin (plural cavins)
- A hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.
- Having a sufficient Knowledge of the several Parts of the Fortification, by means of Spies, Deserters, Prisoners, and from printed or drawn Plans, The Nature of the Ground about the Place must be well examined and observed, whether there are any hollow Ways, or Cavins, by means of which the...1747, John Muller, The Attack and Defence of Fortify'd Places, page 29
- These posts are sometimes covered by a rideau, or rising ground, or else by a cavin, or deep valley, which saves the trouble of fortifying them with parapets, fascines, gabions, barrels, or bags of earth.1760, A New Military Dictionary: or, the Field of war.
Noun (2)
cavin
- A type of protein that is involved in forming the caveola of many vertebrate cells.
- The observation that lipid rafts and caveolae were highly enriched in PS in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the membrane (Pike et al. 2002) nicely dovetails with recent findings that all cavin proteins that are required for caveola biogenesis bind PS.2011, Ivan R. Nabi, Cellular Domains, page 46
- The cavin family consists of four proteins now termed cavins 1e4 and encoded by the PTRF, SDPR, SRBC, and MURC genes, respectively. Interestingly, none of the early studies about each cavin charcterized it as a caveolar protein.2015, Kwang W. Jeon, International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology, page 238
Proper noun capitalized: Cavin
Cavin (plural Cavins)
- A surname.
Forms of cavin
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| plural | cavins |
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| plural | Cavins |
Origin of cavin
From French cavin (same meaning), ultimately from Latin cavus.
From cav(eola) + -in. Coined in J. Vinten et al. (2005), “Identification of a major protein on the cytosolic face of caveolae”, in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, volume 1717, number 1, pages 34-40: Cav-p60, a specific and ubiquitous caveolar protein, was[…]identified as similar to a GeneBank entry annotated mouse polymerase transcript release factor (PTRF)[…]The results show that in a large number of cell types, PTRF is essentially located to caveolae, and that each caveola harbors many copies of the protein. Consequently, we suggest the name Cavin [sic – not capitalised elsewhere in the article] for this protein. .
Questions about cavin
- What does cavin mean?
- Cavin means a hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.
- What part of speech is cavin?
- Cavin can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of cavin?
- The plural of cavin is cavins.
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