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signaling en · NOUN

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1. (US) The sending of a signal (often with reference to a biochemical signal).
   • A lot of visual signaling happens on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
   • It arises as a consequence of the multiple interactions that occur after a ligand triggers a receptor to initiate a signaling cascade and it ensures that false signals do not propagate to completion. 2008, Alexander Sigalov, Multichain Immune Recognition Receptor Signaling, page 82:
   • This may be due to the fact that gp130 expression is very low on this subpopulation or that signalings from gp130 alone cannot maintain survival or proliferation in these cells. 2012, Nader G. Abraham, Molecular Biology of Hematopoiesis 6, page 157:
   • The handkerchiefs were tied together, and ordering the men to stand between himself and the main body, he began a series of signalings, as if communicating with some one in the ravine, from whence they had just come. 1881, Mary E. Jackson, The Spy of Osawatomie, page 319:

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Deriveds

in-band signaling · mechanosignaling · cab signaling · vice signalling · out-of-band signaling · nonsignaling · virtue signalling · hyposignaling · neuroendocrine signaling · biosignaling · osmosignaling

Relateds

chemical messenger

signaling en · VERB

Meanings

1. (US, form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of signal
   form of signal
   • He was signaling his readiness to undertake daring tasks.

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