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ENABLING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Providing legal power or sanction
Example:
enabling power
Classified under:
Similar:
facultative (granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something)
sanctionative; sanctioning (implying sanction or serving to sanction)
Antonym:
disabling (depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb enable
Context examples:
This increases the voltage associated with the charge stored in the yarn, enabling the harvesting of electricity.
(Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The highly conservative hSWI/SNF multisubunit complexes contain hBRM or BRG1 ATPases which alter the histone-DNA contacts enabling the access of general transcription factors to promoter regions.
(hSWI-SNF Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This open, accessible configuration surrounding the switches that control cytokine genes may be instrumental in enabling ILCs to rapidly launch an assault upon infection.
(Rapid-response immune cells are fully prepared before invasion strikes, NIH)
The mechanisms and consequences of autophosphorylation are central to the CaMKII enzyme's complex regulatory behavior enabling it to become differentially activated at different frequencies and levels of calcium spikes.
(Calmodulin Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Although it required an effort to leave Miss Mills, I fell rather willingly into my aunt's pretence, as a means of enabling me to pass a few tranquil hours with Agnes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
R&D aimed at enabling scaled-up, reliable, cost effective manufacturing of nanoscale materials, structures, devices, and systems.
(Nanomanufacturing, NCI Thesaurus)
These proteins direct a complex network of protein filaments that provide stability to the cellular infrastructure by supporting the dynamic motility of microfilaments, thereby enabling intracellular translocation and organelle transport.
(Actin-Binding Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
Young stalagmite material built up quickly, enabling the study of rainfall patterns over the last 50 years.
(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)
TA-MUC1 is designated to MUC1 epitopes with O-glycosylated carbohydrate-induced conformational structures that are tumor-specific, thereby enabling PankoMab to differentiate between tumor MUC1 and non-tumor MUC1 epitopes.
(Anti-TA-MUC1 Monoclonal Antibody PankoMab, NCI Thesaurus)
Enabling machines to understand human behavior also could enable new approaches to behavioral diagnosis and rehabilitation for conditions such as autism, dyslexia and depression.
(Computer that Reads Body Language, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
