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spacer

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(sometimes science fiction) A person who works or lives in space.

An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type.

A bushing.

(slang) A forgetful person; one who spaces out.

(medicine) A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.

(historical) An instrument for reversing a telegraphic current, especially in a marine cable, to increase the speed of transmission.

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A 5–7 bp spacer between the cleavage sites further enhances the specificity of ZFN, making them a safe and more precise tool that can be applied in humans. Source: Internet

A floor spacer, and just another veteran guy.” Source: Internet

Arrow bag A style used by medieval English Longbowmen and several other cultures, an arrow bag is a simple drawstring cloth sack with a leather spacer at the top to keep the arrows divided. Source: Internet

Diaphragm Diaphragm couplings transmit torque from the outside diameter of a flexible plate to the inside diameter, across the spool or spacer piece, and then from inside to outside diameter. Source: Internet

For affinity chromatography, beaded agarose is the most commonly used matrix resin for the attachment of the ligands that bind protein. citation The ligands are linked covalently through a spacer to activated hydroxyl groups of agarose bead polymer. Source: Internet

A semiconductor structure and methods for fabricating the semiconductor structure include a gate electrode located over a channel region within a semiconductor substrate and a spacer layer adjacent the gate electrode. Source: Internet

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