What is a meaning of inhibit?

Answer 1

To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder., To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.

Answer 2

An inhibitor is something that slows down or suppresses a reaction.
It depends on the context....

A resistor is an inhibitor, because it restricts the amount of power in a circuit.

Sone drugs are inhibitors because they reduce or restrict the effects of illness or disease.

Door locks are inhibitors because they only allow authorized people to enter.

In short - an inhibitor stops or reduces something happening.

Answer 3

Inhibitor is a compound or molecule that normally inhibits a function of a proteins or any process. Anitbiotic penicillin can inhibit the cell wall synthesis in bacteria. That is the reason we are taking ampicillin or penicillin when we catch bacterial infection.

Answer 4

To "inhibit" means to try and prevent something from happening.

Answer 5

A substance that can slow down/prevent a catalytic reaction in an enzyme from occurring. Can be competitive or non-competitive

Answer 6

An inhibitor is a substance which that blocks a chemical reaction.

Answer 7

To inhibit means to prevent or restrain something from happening or developing to its full potential. It can also refer to suppressing or limiting a certain behavior or action.

Answer 8

a thing which inhibits someone or something.

a substance which slows down or prevents a particular chemical reaction or other process or which reduces the activity of a particular reactant, catalyst, or enzyme.

as genetics:

a gene whose presence prevents the expression of some other gene at a different locus.

(There are a couple of them)