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e-noses

e-noses is the plural of e-nose.

Meaning of e-nose

Noun

e-nose (plural e-noses)

  1. An electronic device able to detect specific combinations of chemicals in gaseous form.
    • The e-nose created by surgeon David Morgan and engineer Ritaban Dutta and colleagues can sit on a doctor's desk and analyse gasses given off by swabs from patients for signs of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other strains of Staph aureus.2005, E-nose to 'sniff out' superbugs, BBC Online, 22 September.

Questions about e-noses

What is e-noses the plural of?
E-noses is the plural of e-nose.

Words near e-noses in the dictionary

  1. e-newsletter
  2. e-newsletters
  3. e-newspaper
  4. e-newspapers
  5. e-nose
  6. e-noses
  7. e-notification
  8. e-notifications
  9. e-novel
  10. e-novella
  11. e-novellas

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