inhibition
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English inhibicioun, inhibicione from Old French inibicion, from Latin inhibitio.
Morphologically inhibit + -ion.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɪnhɪˈbɪʃən/, /ɪnɪˈbɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪʃən
Noun
editinhibition (countable and uncountable, plural inhibitions)
- 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.
Derived terms
edit- angioinhibition
- autoinhibition
- baroinhibition
- cardioinhibition
- chemoinhibition
- coinhibition
- contact inhibition
- counterinhibition
- disinhibition
- hyperinhibition
- immunoinhibition
- mitoinhibition
- mixed inhibition
- noninhibition
- osteoinhibition
- overinhibition
- phosphoinhibition
- photoinhibition
- retroinhibition
- sympathoinhibition
- thermoinhibition
- tissue thromboplastin inhibition time
- topoinhibition
- transinhibition
- transmarginal inhibition
- uninhibition
Translations
editAct of inhibiting
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State of being inhibited
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Stopping or retarding a chemical reaction
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See also
editFinnish
editNoun
editinhibition
French
editEtymology
editFrom Latin inhibitiōnem.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editinhibition f (plural inhibitions)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “inhibition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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