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  • 31abortive transduction — abortive transduction. См. абортивная трансдукция. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

    Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • 32abortive attempt — index frustration, miscarriage Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 33abortive effort — index miscarriage Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 34abortive — adjective Date: 14th century 1. obsolete prematurely born 2. fruitless, unsuccessful 3. imperfectly formed or developed 4. tending to cut short • abortively adverb • abortiveness …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 35abortive — remaining or becoming imperfect …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 36abortive — Synonyms and related words: barren, bootless, failed, failing, fruitless, futile, gainless, immature, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, lame, manque, miscarried, miscarrying, nonremunerative, of no effect, otiose, profitless, rewardless,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 37abortive — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. vain, failing, fruitless; see futile 1 . See Synonym Study at futile . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. unsuccessful, fruitless, futile, useless, vain, unproductive, ineffectual, failing. ANT.: successful, fruitful,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 38abortive — a bor·tive || tɪv adj. unsuccessful, fruitless; failing to develop completely; tending to cause an abortion (Medicine) …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 39abortive — a. 1. Miscarrying, failing, untimely, immature, incomplete, stunted, rudimentary, rudimental. 2. Unavailing, vain fruitless, useless, bootless, ineffectual, ineffective, inoperative, unsuccessful, profitless, futile, unprofitable, idle, nugatory …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 40abortive — adj 1. unsuccessful, vain, futile, useless, bootless, profitless, unavailing; worthless, nugatory; ineffective, inoperative, ineffectual; fruitless, unproductive, sterile, barren, impotent. 2. rudimentary, imperfectly developed; immature,… …

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