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promoter

[ pruh-moh-ter ]
/ prəˈmoʊ tər /
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noun
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Origin of promoter

1400–50; late Middle English; see promote, -er1; replacing earlier promotour<Anglo-French

OTHER WORDS FROM promoter

self-pro·mot·er, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for promoter

promoter
/ (prəˈməʊtə) /

noun
a person or thing that promotes
a person who helps to organize, develop, or finance an undertaking
a person who organizes and finances a sporting event, esp a boxing match
chem a substance added in small amounts to a catalyst to increase its activity
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 ]

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