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REPOSITIONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repositioning mean? 

REPOSITIONING (noun)
  The noun REPOSITIONING has 1 sense:

1. the act of placing in a new positionplay

  Familiarity information: REPOSITIONING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REPOSITIONING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of placing in a new position

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("repositioning" is a kind of...):

emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning (the act of putting something in a certain place)

Derivation:

reposition (place into another position)


 Context examples 


The enhanceosome targets the modification and repositioning of a nucleosome that blocks the formation of a transcriptional preinitiation complex on the IFN-beta promoter.

(IFN-Beta Enhancer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The repositioning of the fetal head attitude immediately after delivery, returning to a normal position in alignment with the rest of its body.

(Fetal Restitution, NCI Thesaurus)

These markers impact a cell’s activity by changing the stability of microtubules, thus affecting cell shape, or by repositioning molecular cargo traveling on the microtubules.

(Scientists unravel the mystery of the tubulin code, NIH)



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