antirepair

adj — 2 senses

antirepair

adj

Etymology From anti- + repair.

1

Preventing or opposing the repair of equipment.

  • Under existing antitrust doctrine, there are four distinct legal theories that could be used to target these antirepair policies.2022, Aaron Perzanowski, The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own, page 177:
2

Biology, Genetics, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences Inhibiting the repair of damaged DNA.

  • an antirepair pathway
  • an antirepair effect
1 more example
  • The increased levels of mature miRNAs could play a role in the DNA damage response by (1) decreasing the levels of antirepair genes (such as the antirecombinases, Srs2, PARI, RTEL1 [122]) (2) downregulating DDR proteins through a feedback regulation loop to restore pre-DNA damage levels.2017, Alexey Moskalev, Alexander Vaiserman, Epigenetics of Aging and Longevity, page 174:

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