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n. The act or process of inactivating.
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n. the process of rendering inactive
n. breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges)
Word Usage
"Because transpositions result in inactivation of neighbouring genes, McClintock used the term "controlling elements" to describe the mobile chromosome structures."