English

Noun

affector ‎(plural affectors)

1. A nerve cell that directly activates a muscle
   • 2015 July 10, “Data-Driven Method to Estimate Nonlinear Chemical Equivalence”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0130494:

     This condition is intuitive: if the sigmoid-like positive and negative affectors that compose the biphasic equation were positioned “further apart” by increasing the interval lnK + − lnK - (e.g., Fig B in S1 File ), then saturation levels for the positive affector more closely match the starting levels of the negative affector, and in sigmoid models that exhibit very good agreement with the overall biphasic relationship.

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Latin

Verb

affector

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of affectō

References

• affector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “affector”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.