inhibition

IPA: ɪnhʌbˈɪʃʌn

The act of inhibiting.
(psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
(chemistry, biochemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
(law) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
(Philippines, law) A recusal.

Examples of "inhibition" in Sentences

My only inhibition is how little I know the answer myself.
The effect of this inhibition is considered a bimodal phenomenon.
Noncompetitive inhibition is rarely seen in enzymes that catalyze reactions requiring only one substrate.
"In such diseases, inhibition is more direct than excitation, because you can shut down neural circuits that are behaving erratically," he said.
Although inhibition is linked to norepinephrine, what Higley calls the "nerdiness" of the loner who can't get along goes with low levels of the transmitter serotonin.
II. ii.346 (217,9) I think, their inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation] I fancy this is transposed: Hamlet enquires not about an _inhibition_, but an _innovation_; the answer therefore probably was,
But if we abstract from any such implication, and conceive of such force as the term inhibition seems to connote, as restricted to the associated neural or physiological processes, no unwarranted assumptions need be imported by the term into the facts, and the definition may, perhaps, suffice.
One study has suggested that 40 percent of the difference in inhibition among a group of middle-class children depended on genes, but, Kagan says, "to ask what proportion of personality is genetic rather than environmental is like asking what proportion of a blizzard is due to cold temperature rather than humidity."