Word.ws English Dictionary

mechanotransduction

mechanotransduction noun: the conversion of a mechanical stimulus into chemical activity.

Noun

mechanotransduction (countable and uncountable, plural mechanotransductions)

  1. The conversion of a mechanical stimulus into chemical activity

Forms of mechanotransduction

pluralmechanotransductions

Origin of mechanotransduction

From mechano- + transduction.

Questions about mechanotransduction

What does mechanotransduction mean?
Mechanotransduction means the conversion of a mechanical stimulus into chemical activity.
What part of speech is mechanotransduction?
Mechanotransduction is a noun.
What is the plural of mechanotransduction?
The plural of mechanotransduction is mechanotransductions.

Words near mechanotransduction in the dictionary

  1. mechanotransduced
  2. mechanotransducer
  3. mechanotransducers
  4. mechanotransducing
  5. mechanotransducive
  6. mechanotransduction
  7. mechanotransductional
  8. mechanotransductions
  9. mechanotransductive
  10. mechanotransductor
  11. mechanotransductors

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mechanotransduction (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mechanotransduction.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mechanotransduction. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.