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SEQUESTRATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
Synonyms:
requisition; sequestration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sequestration" is a kind of...):
appropriation (a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner)
Derivation:
sequester (take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of segregating or sequestering
Example:
sequestration of the jury
Synonyms:
segregation; sequestration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sequestration" is a kind of...):
separation (the social act of separating or parting company)
Derivation:
sequester (keep away from others)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A writ that authorizes the seizure of property
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sequestration" is a kind of...):
judicial writ; writ ((law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("sequestration" is a kind of...):
chemical action; chemical change; chemical process ((chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved)
Derivation:
sequester (undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion)
Context examples:
These benefits include carbon sequestration, flood protection and water purification.
(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)
Climate scientists have long recognized the importance of forest conservation and forest regrowth in climate mitigation and carbon sequestration — capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.
(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)
An elevated level of PGI2 prevents aggregation of platelets; subsequently it decreases the formation of tumor cell-platelet aggregates as well as their sequestration in blood vessels, which is an important initiating step in the development of metastasis.
(Nafazatrom, NCI Thesaurus)
Delanzomib represses the proteasomal degradation of a variety of proteins, including inhibitory kappaBalpha (IkappaBalpha), resulting in the cytoplasmic sequestration of the transcription factor NF-kappaB; inhibition of NF-kappaB nuclear translocation and transcriptional up-regulation of a variety of cell growth-promoting factors; and apoptotic cell death in susceptible tumor cell populations.
(Delanzomib, NCI Thesaurus)
Upon intratumoral administration, one shRNA unit with a perfectly matched sequence renders the suppression of STMN1 mRNA translation (mRNA sequestration and cleavage-independent degradation) while the other unit with an imperfectly matched sequence renders STMN1 mRNA degradation via RNase H-like cleavage (cleavage-dependent mRNA silencing).
(pbi-shRNA STMN1 Lipoplex, NCI Thesaurus)
She had good reason to believe that some property of her husband in the West Indies, which had been for many years under a sort of sequestration for the payment of its own incumbrances, might be recoverable by proper measures; and this property, though not large, would be enough to make her comparatively rich.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Co-author Chris Gough of Virginia Commonwealth University suggests that multiple layers of leaves may optimize how efficiently light is used to power carbon sequestration in wood.
(Structural complexity in forests improves carbon capture, National Science Foundation)
Understanding how forest structure drives carbon sequestration is important for ecologists, climate modelers and forest managers, who are working on ways to mitigate climate change.
(Structural complexity in forests improves carbon capture, National Science Foundation)
The study, by researchers at the University of Connecticut, Virginia Commonwealth University and Purdue University, demonstrates for the first time that a forest's structural complexity is a better predictor of carbon sequestration potential than tree species diversity.
(Structural complexity in forests improves carbon capture, National Science Foundation)
