floxes

Verb (1)

flox (third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)

1. (molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP".
   • In order to do this, the gene to knock out must first be floxed by homologous recombination.2003, Louis-Marie Houdebine, Animal Transgenesis and Cloning, →ISBN, page 93

Verb (2)

flox (third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)

1. (dated, transitive) To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel.
   • It is to be tried in the so-called floxed Atlas, with the usual kerosene type fuel.1965, Samuel Glasstone, Sourcebook on the Space Sciences, page 94

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