promoter

[ pruh-moh-ter ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that promotes, furthers, or encourages.

  2. a person who initiates or takes part in the organizing of a company, development of a project, etc.

  1. a person who organizes and provides financial backing for a sporting event or entertainment.

  2. Chemistry. any substance that in small amounts is capable of increasing the activity of a catalyst.

  3. Also called collector. Metallurgy. a water-repellent reagent enhancing the ability of certain ores to float so that they can be extracted by the flotation process.

  4. Genetics.

    • a site on a DNA molecule at which RNA polymerase binds and initiates transcription.

    • a gene sequence that activates transcription.

  5. Obsolete. an informer.

Origin of promoter

1
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English; promote + -er1; replacing earlier promotour, from Anglo-French

Other words from promoter

  • self-pro·mot·er, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for promoter

promoter

/ (prəˈməʊtə) /


noun
  1. a person or thing that promotes

  2. a person who helps to organize, develop, or finance an undertaking

  1. a person who organizes and finances a sporting event, esp a boxing match

  2. chem a substance added in small amounts to a catalyst to increase its activity

  3. genetics a sequence of nucleotides, associated with a structural gene, that must bind with messenger RNA polymerase before transcription can proceed

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Scientific definitions for promoter

promoter

[ prə-mōtər ]


  1. The region of an operon that acts as the initial binding site for RNA polymerase.

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