effector — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. One who or that which brings about an event or result, accomplishes a purpose, etc.

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   This Sanctification, and Bleſſing the Seventh Day, was ſetting it apart as a Day of Diſtinction from the Reſt of the Week-Days, and appropriating it to Holy Uſes and Purpoſes, namely, the Commemoration of that great Work of the Creation, and paying Homage and Worſhip to that infinite Being, who was the Effector of it.

   Yea; and I devised Numbers—high art!—and letters’ composition, / And memory, effector of all things, / And mother of the Muses: […]

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   The Sanctifier and bright Lord who is glorious in operation, the dispositioner, the effector of all trans-substantiations, who sets the traverse wall according to the measure of the angel with the reed, who knows best how to gather his epiklesis from that open plain, who transmutes their cheerless blasphemy into a lover’s word, who spoke by Balaam and by Balaam’s ass, who spoke also by Sgt. Bullcock.

2. Any muscle, organ etc. that can respond to a stimulus from a nerve.

3. The part of a nerve that carries a stimulus to a muscle etc.

4. Any small molecule that effects the function of an enzyme by binding to an allosteric site.

5. An actuator.

Sostantivo

1. one who brings about a result or event; one who accomplishes a purpose

   Sinonimi

   effecter

   Termini più generali

   actordoerworker

2. a nerve fiber that terminates on a muscle or gland and stimulates contraction or secretion

   Termini più generali

   nerve fibernerve fibre

3. an organ (a gland or muscle) that becomes active in response to nerve impulses

   Contrari

   receptor

   Termini più generali

   organ