Something that restrains, blocks, or suppresses.
Inhibitor or inhibition may refer to:
- Corrosion inhibitor, a substance that decreases the rate of metal oxidation
- Enzyme inhibitor, a substance that binds to an enzyme and decreases the enzyme's activity
- Reuptake inhibitor, a substance that increases neurotransmission by blocking the reuptake of a neurotransmitter
- Inhibition of return, a feature of attention
- Inhibition Theory, a theory pertaining to the performance of a mental task
- Inhibitors (Revelation Space), machines in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space novels
- Latent inhibition, a term used in classical conditioning
- Lateral inhibition, a neural mechanism that increases contrast between active and (neighbouring) inactive neurons
- Memory inhibition, processes that suppress or interfere with specific memories
- Reaction inhibitor, a substance that prevents or decreases the rate of a chemical reaction
- Sexual inhibition, reservations relating to sexual practices
- Social inhibition, a conditioned fear reaction to social marginalization or isolation
- "Inhibitions", a 2008 single by Swedish band Alcazar
- Inhibitory postsynaptic potential, a synaptic potential that decreases the firing of a neuron
Famous quotes containing the word inhibitions:
“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wires ... to the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)