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dictyosome(dictionary)

stabilize (iou) and dictyosome (medicine)


stabilize (iou)



stabilize verb. Also stabilise. M19.
[from STABLE adjective infl. by the stem of STABILITY: see -IZE. Cf. French stabiliser.]
verb trans. Make (more) stable; give stability to (a ship, aircraft, etc.), fit stabilizers to; give a stable character or value to. M19.
Publishers Weekly The government of France has succeeded in stabilizing the franc at 25.52 to the dollar. Times The rocket during the whole of its flight was stabilized, to prevent rotation. J. K. Galbraith Efforts..to stabilize the economy. P. Dally She soon began to eat more and stabilise her weight.
verb intrans. Be stabilized; become stable. M20.
Anthony Smith There are considerable brain-wave changes during childhood, but the patterns stabilize before adulthood is reached.
stabili'zation noun L19.
stabilized adjective made stable; (of cloth) treated in order to prevent stretching or shrinking; (of a drug addict) able to live more or less normally on a repeated constant dose: L19.

dictyosome (medicine)


dictyosome
<cell biology> Organelle found in plant cells and functionally equivalent to the Golgi apparatus of animal cells.

Origin: Gr. Soma = body