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silencing meaning

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WSilencing
  • Silencing is a visual illusion in which a set of objects that change in luminance, hue, size, or shape appears to stop changing when it moves.
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    Definition of silencing in English Dictionary

  • NounPLsilencingsPREsil-SUF-ing
    1. The act by which something is silenced.
    2. Verb
      1. present participle of silence.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • Our data suggest the silencing of dCK as the probable causative mechanism of the resistance to fludarabine and of the cross-resistance to other antinucleotides, both pyrimidine- and purine-derived.
          • Cadaverine and acetylspermidine were not detected since they are absent in Shigella due to the pathoadaptive silencing of the cad and speG genes [19 ].
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • Transvection effects include both activation and silencing.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Countable nouns
          • Verbs
            • Verb forms
              • Participles
                • Present participles
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          1. en silencings
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          Meaning of silencing for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "silencing" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
          Definiteness: Level 1
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