facultative
IPA: fˈækʌɫteɪtɪv
adjective
- Of or relating to faculty, especially to mental faculty.
- Not obligate; optional, discretionary or elective.
- That grants permission or power to do something.
- (biology) Able to perform a particular life function, or to live generally, in more than one way.
- (geometry, of a point) At which a given function is positive.
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Examples of "facultative" in Sentences
- In some cantons the referendum is obligatory, in others it is "facultative," or optional.
- The Turkish children featured in the documentary show what I'd call facultative quadrupedalism; they walk on all fours out of necessity.
- Most of the bacteria which produce disease are facultative, that is, they grow either with or without oxygen; but certain of them, as the bacillus of tetanus, are anaërobic.
- However, the increased estuarine production discussed previously will possibly offset any tendency to reduce facultative anadromy in response to increased freshwater production.
- In the same way we greet as a positive element the possibility – permitted as a facultative choice by the motu proprio – of proclaiming, in the old rite, the readings in the vernacular.
- The host (facultative aerobe implies facultative anaerobe, doesn't it?) could handle aerobic conditions already, presumably because it had peroxisomes as oxygen sink. t's funny that you mention peroxisomes, as people once thought they were endosymbionts but now evidence seems to point to en origin from the ER.
- I don't know if it's more to do with me (that is, if I express emotion differently in one language more than the other, that is, if English is my critical/facultative language and Spanish my emotional language) or the fact of Spanish being one of those languages with a formal (usted) and informal (tu) second person.
- Something I've not yet commented on since my part facultative-festive and part enforced-technological break is the welcome restoration of sense and good legal analysis to the field of religious discrimination by the Employment Appeal Tribunal, which has reversed the much-publicised but obviously wrong decision at first instance in this case.
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