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Meaning of "clinostat" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CLINOSTAT

clinostat  [ˈklaɪnəʊˌstæt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLINOSTAT

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Clinostat is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CLINOSTAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Clinostat

A clinostat is a device which uses rotation to negate the effects of gravitational pull on plant growth and development. It has also been used to study the effects of microgravity on cell cultures and animal embryos.

Definition of clinostat in the English dictionary

The definition of clinostat in the dictionary is an apparatus for studying tropisms in plants, usually a rotating disc to which the plant is attached so that it receives an equal stimulus on all sides.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CLINOSTAT


aerostat
ˈɛərəˌstæt
bacteriostat
bækˈtɪərɪəʊˌstæt
barostat
ˈbærəʊˌstæt
chemostat
ˈkiːməʊˌstæt
coccidiostat
kɒkˈsɪdɪəʊˌstæt
cryostat
ˈkraɪəˌstæt
Eisenstaedt
ˈaɪzənˌstæt
Eurostat
ˈjʊərəʊˌstæt
gyrostat
ˈdʒaɪrəʊˌstæt
haemostat
ˈhiːməʊˌstæt
heliostat
ˈhiːlɪəʊˌstæt
hemostat
ˈhiːməʊˌstæt
humidistat
hjuːˈmɪdɪˌstæt
hydrostat
ˈhaɪdrəʊˌstæt
hygrostat
ˈhaɪɡrəˌstæt
klinostat
ˈklaɪnəʊˌstæt
photostat
ˈfəʊtəʊˌstæt
pyrostat
ˈpaɪrəʊˌstæt
siderostat
ˈsaɪdərəʊˌstæt
thermostat
ˈθɜːməˌstæt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CLINOSTAT

clink
clinker
clinker block
clinker brick
clinker-built
clinkstone
clinoaxis
clinochlore
clinodiagonal
clinometer
clinometric
clinometrical
clinometry
clinopinacoid
clinopinakoid
clinopyroxene
clinquant
clint
Clinton
clintonia

WORDS THAT END LIKE CLINOSTAT

aegrotat
antistat
appestat
attentat
coelostat
despotat
diktat
etat
fungistat
habitat
latitat
microhabitat
nihil obstat
rat-a-tat
rat-a-tat-tat
rat-tat
rat-tat-tat
tat
tit for tat
tit-for-tat

Synonyms and antonyms of clinostat in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «clinostat» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CLINOSTAT

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回转器
1,325 millions of speakers

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clinostat
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clinostat
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clinostat
380 millions of speakers
ar

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clinostat
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clinostat
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clinostat
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clinostat
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clinostat
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Klinostat
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Klinostat
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Translator English - Japanese

植物回転器
130 millions of speakers

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clinostat
85 millions of speakers

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Clinostat
85 millions of speakers
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clinostat
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Translator English - Tamil

clinostat
75 millions of speakers

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क्लिनॉस्टॅट
75 millions of speakers

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clinostat
70 millions of speakers

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clinostat
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clinostat
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clinostat
40 millions of speakers

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clinostat
30 millions of speakers
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clinostat
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clinostat
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clinostat
10 millions of speakers
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clinostat
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Trends of use of clinostat

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CLINOSTAT»

The term «clinostat» is used very little and occupies the 164.502 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CLINOSTAT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about clinostat

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLINOSTAT»

Discover the use of clinostat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to clinostat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Effects of Hypergravity and Microgravity on Biomedical ...
The 3D clinostat is a microgravity simulator that is based on the principle of gravity vector averaging. Gravity is a vector because it has magnitude and direction. During an experimental run in a two-axes 3D clinostat, the sample's position with ...
Thais Russomano, Gustavo Dalmarco, 2008
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Photomovement
If the effect of clinostat treatment on phototropism merely represents a removal of gravitropic counteraction, one would predict that the early time-course of phototropic curvature is not very much affected by clinostat rotation. This is because the ...
D.-P. Häder, M. Lebert, 2001
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Clinostat: Principles and Applications
A clinostat is a motorized device that uses rotation to negate the effects of gravitational pull on plant growth and development, and has also been used to study the effects of microgravity on cell cultures and animal embryos.
Santosh Bhaskaran, 2013
4
Gravity and the Behavior of Unicellular Organisms
These examples show that both experimental approaches (space experiment and fast-rotating 2D clinostat) show similar results, though the response in actual microgravity appears to be more pronounced and/or faster. Studies with very fast  ...
Donat-Peter Häder, Ruth Hemmersbach, Michael Lebert, 2005
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The Effects of Physical Forces on Growth, Cell Cycle, and ...
As shown in Figure 40, clinorotation with neutral buoyancy decreased expression of SSA4 (70.63 +/- 4.96 FU in the clinostat vs. 45.08 +/- 3.00 FU in the clinostat with neutral buoyancy, n=4, p< 0.001). However, when the Msn4 transcription ...
Chasity Beth Coleman, 2007
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Postharvest Physiology and Hypobaric Storage of Fresh Produce
Ethylene was most effective in inducing epinasty when plants were upright, about 0.4 [times] as effective when plants were rotated on a horizontal clinostat, and only slightly, or not at all effective, when the plants were inverted or the upper ...
Stanley P. Burg, 2004
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Annual Report
Acceleration thresholds for geo response were determined using a two—axis clinosTat (2 H compensator) that nullifies the directional vecTor of gravity while allowing the imposition of various centrifugal forces normal To that vecTor (4).
8
Developmental Biology Research in Space
Simulated microgravity using an apparatus called a clinostat has been employed for fish development studies. Studies using a three-dimensional clinostat have been performed on medaka embryos. Both normal and clinostat-treated embryos  ...
‎2003
9
Advances in Space Biology and Medicine
C. Spaceflight Simulation Some aspects of spaceflight can be simulated on Earth by means of various techniques: clinostat, freefall machine, magnetic levitation, head-down suspension, neutral boyancy in water immersion, bed rest, and ...
S.L. Bonting, 1999
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Space Biology: Report of a Study Convened by the Space ...
Ground-based experiments have a different set of limitations; the principal one relates to the nature of the clinostat.* The rotation of experimental material on the horizontal clinostat does not necessarily reproduce all the conditions of ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Space Science Board, Kenneth Vivian Thimann, 1970

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLINOSTAT»

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Researcher explores effect of zero gravity on genes of microscopic …
The clinostat was developed to explore that question, allowing researchers to mount an experiment on a rotating platform that would keep the ... «Phys.Org, Feb 15»
2
UD researcher explores effect of zero gravity on genes of …
Sabanayagam and his team have developed a clinostat that allows ... call it, is placed in the clinostat where it rotates at a speed slow enough to ... «UD Daily, Feb 15»
3
Grant of Research Instrument from UN to Allow McPherson College …
Thanks to a grant from the United Nations, this fall McPherson College will receive a research instrument called a “clinostat” delivered from ... «MC News, Sep 14»
4
MSU bags prestigious space affair project from UN
Our department will get Clinostat for carrying out the research on indigenous plant species," professor G Sandhya Kiran, head of Department of ... «Times of India, Jul 14»
5
The secret to how plants set branch angles
Kepinski and colleagues at Leeds proved the presence of the offset by using a clinostat, which slowly rotates a plant growing on its side, ... «Futurity: Research News, Jul 13»
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Announcement of Opportunity United Nations Human Space …
Zero-gravity Instrument (Clinostat) Description: The instrument to be distributed is a one-axis clinostat that simulates certain aspects of ... «Space Ref, May 13»
7
Strapping On A Centrifuge: Suborbital Scientist Training
(video of exercise in a large centrifuge) In grad school my research utilized a device called a "clinostat" to slowly rotate chicken eggs and thus ... «Space Ref, May 11»
8
Making Babies in Space May Be Harder Than It Sounds
clinostat The experiment, published Tuesday in Public Library of Science ONE, is the latest addition to a surprisingly large body of literature on ... «Wired News, Aug 09»
9
'Moss In Space' Project Shows How Some Plants Grow Without Gravity
However, these moss cultures were either kept stationary or turned at a slow spin on a clinostat a machine that resembles a record turntable ... «Space Ref, Jan 05»

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