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photorepair

photorepair noun: photochemical repair (of DNA).

Noun

photorepair (uncountable)

  1. photochemical repair (of DNA)

Verb

photorepair (third-person singular simple present photorepairs, present participle photorepairing, simple past and past participle photorepaired)

  1. To photochemically repair (DNA)

Forms of photorepair

third-person singular presentphotorepairs
present participlephotorepairing
past participlephotorepaired
pastphotorepaired

Origin of photorepair

From photo- + repair.

Questions about photorepair

What does photorepair mean?
Photorepair means photochemical repair (of DNA).
What part of speech is photorepair?
Photorepair can be a noun or a verb.

Words near photorepair in the dictionary

  1. photorelief
  2. photoreliefs
  3. photorelocation
  4. photorelocations
  5. photoremovable
  6. photorepair
  7. photorepaired
  8. photoreport
  9. photoreportage
  10. photoreports
  11. photoreproduce

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