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repressors

repressors is the plural of repressor.

Meaning of repressor

Noun

repressor (plural repressors)

  1. Anything that represses.
  2. Any protein that binds to DNA and thus regulates the expression of genes by decreasing the rate of transcription.

Questions about repressors

What is repressors the plural of?
Repressors is the plural of repressor.

Words near repressors in the dictionary

  1. repressiveness
  2. repressivism
  3. repressment
  4. repressments
  5. repressor
  6. repressors
  7. repressosome
  8. repressosomes
  9. repressure
  10. repressured
  11. repressures

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repressors (page history and authors); repressor (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.

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