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单词 X-inactivation
释义

X or x /eks/

noun
  1. The twenty-fourth letter in the modern English alphabet, twenty-first in the Roman, taken from the Chalcidian alphabet, and of the same form, though perhaps not the same origin, as Ionic and classical Greek chi (Χ, χ; pronounced /k-h/, and later /hh/)
  2. Anything shaped like the letter X

—X was used in Old English medially and finally as a variant for cs. In modern English, medially and finally, it has the value of /ks/, as in extinct and axe, and, medially only, of /gz/, as in exist, or /ksh/, as usu in luxury, or /gzh/, as in luxurious; at the beginning of a word it is usu pronounced /z/, or (rarely) /gz/

X

symbol
  1. (as a Roman numeral) 10
  2. (also x or x) the first variable, unknown or yet to be ascertained quantity or factor (mathematics, etc)
  3. Christ (see also chi1), also used as an abbreviation, as in Xmas and Xian (Christian)
  4. A former category of cinema film to which persons under eighteen were not admitted (superseded by the designation 18)
  5. Used to indicate various other things, such as a choice on a ballot paper, an error on an examination paper, the signature of an illiterate person, etc, or a kiss

xˈ-axis noun (mathematics)

In a graph, the horizontal axis along which the x-coordinate is plotted. Cf y-axis, z-axis

Xˈ-body noun (botany)

An inclusion in a plant-cell suffering from a virus disease

Xˈ-chromosome noun

A chromosome associated with sex-determination, in mammals occurring paired in the female zygote and cell, and alone in the male zygote and cell

Xˈ-craft noun (historical)

A British midget submarine

Xˈ-factor noun

  1. That part of a serviceman's or servicewoman's pay intended as compensation for the disruptions and disadvantages of life in the armed forces
  2. An indefinable quality that sets a person or thing apart (informal)

Xˈ-generation another term for Generation X (see under generation).

xˈ-height noun (printing)

The height of a lower-case x, used as a measure of the height of a typeface

X-inactivāˈtion noun (biology)

The inactivation of one or other X-chromosome in female mammalian cells, with repression of most of the genes on the chromosome

Xˈ-particle noun

A meson

Xˈ-rated adjective

  1. Of a film, in the former X category
  2. Graphically violent or sexually explicit in content, language, etc

X-ray see separate entry.

symbol

(Roman numeral) 10000

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