repair mechanism
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrepairandmechanism
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repair
noun[C or U]
uk/rɪˈpeər/us/rɪˈper/
the act of fixing something that is broken ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
uk/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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Based on the responses to these, the speaker can then decide whether arepairmechanismis warranted.
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Section 4 describes a simple interactiverepairmechanismthat supplements the interactive alignment process.
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Could it be that therepairmechanismends up creating even more damage?
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We argue that thisrepairmechanismcan reestablish alignment when interlocutors' representations diverge without requiring them to model each other's mental states.
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We argue that they employ an interactiverepairmechanismthat helps to maintain the implicit common ground.
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A rapid generepairmechanismon the part of the microorganisms would have been an additional necessity.
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He argues that it is unlikely that this systematic shift can be accounted for only in terms of an interactiverepairmechanismbased on comprehension failure.
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Achieving understanding :repairmechanismin mother-child conversations.
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That inhibits the enzyme catalese, which stops therepairmechanismof the cancer cells.
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P53 is arepairmechanismthat destroys any abnormal cells or arrests the cell cycle.
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A mutation of the body'srepairmechanismcauses fibrous tissue (including muscle, tendon, and ligament) to be ossified spontaneously or when damaged.
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Even in the very first studies, it was obvious that plants have arepairmechanismthat continuously repairs photoinhibitory damage.
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As arepairmechanism, if an insect injures a cell and the pressure drops, the callose will precipitate.
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The photolyase mechanism is no longer working in humans and other placental mammals who instead rely on the less efficient nucleotide excisionrepairmechanism.
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Thisrepairmechanismis one of the reasons for the resilience of certain bacterial spores.
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Thisrepairmechanisminduces errors in the genome via insertion or deletion(indels), or chromosomal rearrangement; any such errors may render the gene products coded at that location non-functional.
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This conclusion relies upon long-lived species paying a high energetic cost for repair mechanisms and shortlived hosts suffering severe parasite-induced pathogenesis.
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There is little doubt that repair mechanisms do come into play on rehydration.
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