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Meaning of "switchlike" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SWITCHLIKE

ˈswɪtʃˌlaɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWITCHLIKE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Switchlike is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SWITCHLIKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of switchlike in the English dictionary

The definition of switchlike in the dictionary is resembling a mechanical, electrical, electronic, or optical device for opening or closing a circuit or for diverting energy from one part of a circuit to another.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SWITCHLIKE

branchlike · brushlike · childlike · dervish-like · dishlike · fetich-like · fetish-like · fishlike · human-like · leechlike · marchlike · marshlike · ostrichlike · ranchlike · rashlike · rushlike · starchlike · suchlike · sunlike · torchlike

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SWITCHLIKE

switch-hit · switch-hitter · switchable · switchback · switchblade · switchblade knife · switchboard · switchboard operator · switched-on · switched-star · switchel · switcher · switcheroo · switchgear · switchgirl · switchgrass · switchman · switchmen · switchover · switchy

WORDS THAT END LIKE SWITCHLIKE

bushlike · deathlike · dislike · doughlike · earthlike · heathlike · lathlike · mothlike · mouthlike · nymphlike · pithlike · sighlike · spinachlike · sylphlike · toothlike · troughlike · truthlike · witchlike · wraithlike · wreathlike

Synonyms and antonyms of switchlike in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «switchlike» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SWITCHLIKE

Find out the translation of switchlike to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of switchlike from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «switchlike» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

switchlike
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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570 millions of speakers
en

English

switchlike
510 millions of speakers
hi

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380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

switchlike
280 millions of speakers
ru

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switchlike
278 millions of speakers
pt

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switchlike
270 millions of speakers
bn

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switchlike
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

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220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Switchlike
190 millions of speakers
de

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switchlike
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

switchlike
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

switchlike
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Switchlike
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

switchlike
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

switchlike
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

स्विच व्हॉइस
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

switchlike
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

a commutatori
65 millions of speakers
pl

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switchlike
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

switchlike
40 millions of speakers
ro

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30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

switchlike
15 millions of speakers
af

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switchlike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

switchlike
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

switchlike
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of switchlike

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SWITCHLIKE»

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWITCHLIKE»

Discover the use of switchlike in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to switchlike and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cell Signaling: principles and mechanisms
This mechanism results in a sigmoidal, switchlike activation of PKA in response to increasing cAMP concentration. This effect is amplified by the fact that inactive PKA is a heterotetramer (two catalytic and two regulatory subunits, with a total of  ...
Wendell Lim, Bruce Mayer, Tony Pawson, 2014
2
Issues in Biophysics and Geophysics Research and ...
Fresh data on life science are presented in the report 'A combination of multisite phosphorylation and substrate sequestration produces switchlike responses.' “ The phosphorylation of a protein on multiple sites has been proposed to promote  ...
‎2012
3
CWNA: Certified Wireless Network Administrator Official ...
The original CWNP definition of an access point (AP) was a half-duplex device with switchlike intelligence. That definition can still be used to characterize autonomous access points and cooperative access points. In Chapter 10, we will  ...
David D. Coleman, David A. Westcott, 2012
4
Systems Biology in Drug Discovery and Development
By integrating a series of continuous and switchlike nonlinear dose–response behaviors in individual cells to describe the response at the tissue and organism level, systems biology can help provide a mechanistic basis for incidence-dose ...
Daniel L. Young, Seth Michelson, 2011
5
The Evolution of Social Wasps
In her ovarian ground plan hypothesis, a switchlike mechanism is proposed to evolve de novo with or after caste divergence, whereas the diapause ground plan hypothesis of caste divergence is based on context-dependent co-option of a ...
St. Louis James H. Hunt Professor of Biology University of Missouri, 2007
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Functional Metabolism: Regulation and Adaptation
This is believed to occur because scaffolds can create kinase complexes that are able to channel reacTEXT BOX 5.3 CONFLICTING VIEWS ON SCAFFOLD FUNCTION Does Scaffolding Affect a Pathway's “Switchlike” Behavior? The current ...
Kenneth B. Storey, 2005
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Targeting Protein Kinases for Cancer Therapy
Both the CDK1/CDC25/WEE1/MYT1 system and the negative feedback loop ( CDK1APC/C CDC20 ) are required for sustained, switchlike cell cycle oscillations in Xenopus egg extracts (148, 149). In somatic cells, another form of the APC/C, ...
David J. Matthews, Mary E. Gerritsen, 2011
8
Archaeology at the Millennium: A Sourcebook
ones previously studied, however, shows that Heinrich events and switchlike Dansgaard–Oeschger cycles spaced at intervals of roughly 1500 years characterize the Holocene and Pleistocene interglacials as well as Pleistocene glacials, and ...
Gary M. Feinman, T. Douglas Price, 2007
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Biosphere Origin and Evolution
Lai and coauthors have analyzed the robustness of the switchlike behavior of the vertebrate Hh-cascade (Lai et al., 2004); their simulation has demonstrated that bistable behavior of the Hh-system is consistent with the experimental data; ...
Nikolay Dobretsov, Nikolay Kolchanov, Alexey Rozanov, 2007
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Biophysics: Searching for Principles
or switchlike as F becomes larger. Cooperativity means, in this context, that the free-energy change upon binding of a calcium ion to one site is increased by occupancy of the other site. Relate the parameter F to this free-energy difference or ...
William S. Bialek, 2012
REFERENCE
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