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prebleach

prebleach adjective: before a bleaching operation.

Adjective

prebleach (not comparable)

  1. Before a bleaching operation.
    • Right panels represent the time-course of a FRAP experiment: prebleach image (top), first image after bleach (middle), 100 s after start of acquisition (bottom).2015 October 29, “Delineating the Tes Interaction Site in Zyxin and Studying Cellular Effects of Its Disruption”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Verb

prebleach (third-person singular simple present prebleaches, present participle prebleaching, simple past and past participle prebleached)

  1. (transitive) To apply a bleaching operation in advance of further bleaching.
    • Since this autofluorescence component bleaches rapidly, we deliberately prebleach it before starting the experiment.2012, Lawrence D. Robb-Gaspers, Paul A. Anderson, Andrew P. Thomas, “Imaging Whole Organs – Single cell [Ca²⁺]ᵢ measurements in the perfused liver”, in Cristina Fasolato, Rosario Rizzuto, editors...

Forms of prebleach

third-person singular presentprebleaches
present participleprebleaching
past participleprebleached
pastprebleached

Origin of prebleach

From pre- + bleach.

Questions about prebleach

What does prebleach mean?
Prebleach means before a bleaching operation.
What part of speech is prebleach?
Prebleach can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near prebleach in the dictionary

  1. preblastoderm
  2. preblastodermal
  3. preblastodermic
  4. Preble
  5. Preble County
  6. prebleach
  7. prebleached
  8. prebleaching
  9. preblend
  10. preblended
  11. preblending

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