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antirepair en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + repair.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Preventing or opposing the repair of equipment.
    • Under existing antitrust doctrine, there are four distinct legal theories that could be used to target these antirepair policies. 2022, Aaron Perzanowski, The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own, page 177:
  2. (not-comparable) Inhibiting the repair of damaged DNA.
    • an antirepair pathway
    • an antirepair effect
    • The increased levels of mature miRNAs could play a role in the DNA damage response by (1) decreasing the levels of antirepair genes (such as the antirecombinases, Srs2, PARI, RTEL1 [122]) (2) downregulating DDR proteins through a feedback regulation loop to restore pre-DNA damage levels. 2017, Alexey Moskalev, Alexander Vaiserman, Epigenetics of Aging and Longevity, page 174: