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RESPECTIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Considered individually
Example:
the various reports all agreed
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
individual; single (being or characteristic of a single thing or person)
Context examples:
As Europa and Enceladus move in their orbits, a gravitational tug-of-war between their respective parent planets and neighboring moons keeps their orbits from becoming circular.
(Cracks in Pluto's moon could indicate it once had an underground ocean, NASA)
A process that involves the binding of any member of the group of pituitary hormones, including growth hormone, thyroid stimulating hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone and prolactin, to their respective receptors.
(Pituitary Hormone Receptor Binding, NCI Thesaurus)
Nurse executives are registered nurses who are instrumental in the design, facilitation, and management of patient care in their respective organizations.
(Nurse Administrator, NCI Thesaurus)
Similar morphological alterations and modulation of gene expression are initiated by the binding of growth factors to their respective receptors, emphasizing the considerable crosstalk between adhesion- and growth factor-mediated signaling.
(Focal Adhesion Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
The extract's chemical profile, their respective concentrations and the mechanism of action of Essiac are largely unknown due to the proprietary nature of the formula and product inconsistency.
(Essiac, NCI Thesaurus)
Users' browsers and other clients sent requests to Dyn to resolve the respective web sites' domain names to an IP, but did not get a reply within the time required.
(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)
A curious equality of friendship, originating, I suppose, in our respective circumstances, sprung up between me and these people, notwithstanding the ludicrous disparity in our years.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Upon intradermal administration of mRNA-derived prostate cancer vaccine CV9104, this agent enters cells, the mRNAs are translated into the respective prostate specific antigens and may cause the immune system to mount a cytotoxic T lymphocyte response (CTL) against PSA-, PSMA-, PAP- and MUC1-expressing prostate tumor cells.
(mRNA-derived Prostate Cancer Vaccine CV9104, NCI Thesaurus)
There, in front of their respective pavilions, flew the martlets of Audley, the roses of Loring, the scarlet bars of Wake, the lion of the Percies and the silver wings of the Beauchamps, each supported by a squire clad in hanging green stuff to represent so many Tritons, and bearing a huge conch-shell in their left hands.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This question answered, as it readily was, the stranger pronounced hers to be Thorpe; and Mrs. Allen immediately recognized the features of a former schoolfellow and intimate, whom she had seen only once since their respective marriages, and that many years ago.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
