inhibitor

IPA: ɪnhˈɪbʌtɝ

One who or that which inhibits.
(chemistry) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific chemical reaction.
(biology) Any substance capable of stopping or slowing a specific biological process

Examples of "inhibitor" in Sentences

(although the proprietary Kindle format might be a short-term inhibitor).
Yes, indeed, guns are fired before leaving the factory and a rust inhibitor is often applied to the exterior and the bore after testfire.
Although some of the ribozymes exhibited high levels of cleavage activity in vitro, none appears to be a potential long term inhibitor in cellulo.
At a given signal, the APC labels an inhibitor of a certain protein-degrading enzyme, whereupon the inhibitor is carried to the proteasome and destroyed.
Steigemann (also one of Huber's Ph.D. students at that time) on the crystallographic refinement of the structure of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor was a success, and our 1975 paper in
In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories.
In an attempt to copy the Ultra Hair Away process, some of these low cost imitators have tried to combine a hair removal depilatory with a so-called "inhibitor" - in these cases the "inhibitor" does not work because of the harmful effects of the depilatory.