nonfunctional in English

adjective
1
not having any particular purpose or function.

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1. Security override nonfunctional

2. Abscission is a developmental program that results in the active shedding of infected or nonfunctional organs from a plant body

3. Both the adenomas and the nonfunctional tumors in acromegaly seem to grow autonomously from the beginning, since paraadenomatous hyperplasia is seldom seen.

4. Cannibalise definition: eat human flesh synonyms: consume, take in, ingest, take, cannibalize, have antonyms: abstain, integrate, conserve, inactivity, nonfunctional

5. Autophagy is a self-digesting mechanism responsible for removal of damaged organelles, malformed proteins during biosynthesis, and nonfunctional long-lived proteins by lysosome

6. When cells are grown in the absence of selenium, translation of selenoproteins terminates at the UGA codon, resulting in a truncated, nonfunctional enzyme.

7. Gene Cassettes consist of a coding sequence, usually without promoter sequences, followed by an integrase-specific recombination site, and either can exist in a nonfunctional circularized form or are expressed as part of an integron or transposon.

8. A Boilerplate spacecraft, also known as a mass simulator, is a nonfunctional craft or payload that is used to test various configurations and basic size, load, and handling characteristics of rocket launch vehicles.It is far less expensive to build multiple, full-scale, non-functional Boilerplate spacecraft than it is to develop the full system (design, test, redesign, and launch).

9. Abscission is a highly programmed process and plays a critical role in the physiology and survival of plants, allowing plants to shed nonfunctional, stressed, or infected organs and disperse progeny (Bleecker and Patterson, 1997; Roberts et al., 2002).Shedding of plant organs occurs at predetermined positions called Abscission zones (AZs).The AZ tissue is composed of small …