spacer
Noun
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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.
A floor spacer, and just another veteran guy.”
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.
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.
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.
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.