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adj. Of, involving, or acting as a catalyst: "Deregulation's catalytic power . . . is still reshaping the banking, communications, and transportation industries” ( Ellyn E. Spragins).

adj. Of or relating to a catalyst; having properties facilitating chemical reaction or change.

adj. Relating to, or causing, catalysis.

n. An agent employed in catalysis, as platinum black, aluminium chloride, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or characterized by catalysis; having the power of decomposing a compound body apparently by mere contact; resulting from catalysis.

A term applied to evolutionary stages or conditions in which organisms are degenerating toward sterility, as a result either of too wide cross-breeding or of too narrow inbreeding. Aberrant or mutative hybrids and abrupt mutative variations or sports appear in the catalytic stages. Compare dialytic, 4, *hemilytic, and *prostholytic.

n. Same as catalytic agent.

adj. relating to or causing or involving catalysis

"The term catalytic is loosely used by RNA world enthusiasts who put forth the argument that RNA catalytic properties could have initially substituted for those of proteins."

catalytic force    catalytic agent   

catalyzer    catalysis    catalyze    catalyst   

noncatalytic    catalytically    anticatalytic    catalytic converter    autocatalytic   

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redox    enzymatic    oxidative    proteolytic    kda    hydrolytic    free-radical    antioxidant    intracellular    metabolic