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Meanings of Mitigating:

adjective

Having the effect of making something bad less severe, serious, or painful.

Usage examples:

It should have a mitigating effect on the frequency of minor flooding events

verb

Make (something bad) less severe, serious, or painful.

Usage examples:

Drainage schemes have helped to mitigate this problem

Meanings of Mitigating-circumstances:

verb

To make something less severe or less unpleasant

Usage examples:

Getting a lot of sleep and drinking plenty of fluids can mitigate the effects of the flu.

Meanings of Mitigation:

noun

The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

Usage examples:

The identification and mitigation of pollution

Meanings of Mitigator:

noun

A person or thing that makes something bad less severe, serious, or painful.

Usage examples:

We're holding bonds as a mitigator of risk

Meanings of Mitigators:

noun

A person or thing that makes something bad less severe, serious, or painful.

Usage examples:

We're holding bonds as a mitigator of risk

Meanings of Mitis:

noun

Especially in "mitis casting". designating pure iron made fluid enough for casting by the addition of a very small quantity of aluminium; (also) designating this method of production or a casting made by this method.

Meanings of Mitises:

noun

Especially in "mitis casting". designating pure iron made fluid enough for casting by the addition of a very small quantity of aluminium; (also) designating this method of production or a casting made by this method.

Meanings of Mitochondria:

noun

An organelle found in large numbers in most cells, in which the biochemical processes of respiration and energy production occur. it has a double membrane, the inner part being folded inwards to form layers (cristae).

Usage examples:

Chloroplasts are cell organelles comparable to the mitochondria of animal cells.

Plural of mitochondrion specialized

Meanings of Mitochondrial:

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of a mitochondrion or mitochondria.

Usage examples:

The outer mitochondrial membrane

Meanings of Mitochondrion:

noun

An organelle found in large numbers in most cells, in which the biochemical processes of respiration and energy production occur. it has a double membrane, the inner part being folded inwards to form layers (cristae).

Usage examples:

Chloroplasts are cell organelles comparable to the mitochondria of animal cells.

Meanings of Mitogen:

noun

A substance that induces or stimulates mitosis.

Usage examples:

Platelet-derived growth factor is a major polypeptide growth factor found in human serum, platelets…

Meanings of Mitogenetic:

adjective

Stimulating mitosis; (originally) specifically designating a type of ultraviolet radiation thought to be emitted by dividing cells and to stimulate division in other cells (now historical).

Meanings of Mitogenicity:

noun

The property of being mitogenic; the degree to which a substance is mitogenic.

Meanings of Mitogens:

noun

A substance that induces or stimulates mitosis.

Usage examples:

Platelet-derived growth factor is a major polypeptide growth factor found in human serum, platelets…

Meanings of Mitomycin:

noun

Any of a group of closely related antibiotics produced by the soil bacterium streptomyces caespitosus; specifically (in full "mitomycin c") the principal member of this group, which inhibits dna synthesis by cross-linking the two chains of duplex dna molecules and is used medically as an antineoplastic agent.

Meanings of Mitoses:

noun

A type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth.

Usage examples:

The single large egg cell subdivides by repeated mitosis

Plural of mitosis specialized

Meanings of Mitosis:

noun

A type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth.

Usage examples:

The single large egg cell subdivides by repeated mitosis

Meanings of Mitosome:

noun

An area of a cell in which mitochondria are aggregated (now rare, perhaps obsolete); (later) an organelle in the cytoplasm of certain protozoans that corresponds to a mitochondrion. also: †a cytoplasmic structure formed by the remains of the mitotic spindle (obsolete).

Meanings of Mitotic:

adjective

Relating to mitosis (= a type of cell division)

Meanings of Mitotically:

adverb

By mitosis; as regards mitosis.

Meanings of Mitraille:

noun

Originally: shot fired from a cannon, consisting of fragments of scrap iron, etc. later: bullets or projectiles fired from a mitrailleuse.

Meanings of Mitrailleur:

noun

= mitrailleuse .

Meanings of Mitrailleuse:

noun

Originally: a machine-gun with a number of barrels, able to discharge projectiles rapidly and simultaneously in large quantities, or singly in quick succession. later generally: any machine-gun.

Meanings of Mitral:

adjective

Denoting or relating to the mitral valve.

Usage examples:

Mitral insufficiency

Meanings of Mitrate:

adjective

Having the shape of a mitre or bonnet; (specifically of the calyptra of a moss) conical, symmetrical, and having two or more slits.

noun

Any member of the order mitrata of fossil invertebrates of the palaeozoic era, having a mitre- or leaf-shaped theca formed of calcite plates, generally regarded as atypical primitive echinoderms but sometimes interpreted as primitive chordates (calcichordates).