scissible

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English

Etymology

From Latin scindere, scissum.

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Adjective

scissible (comparative more scissible, superlative most scissible)

  1. Capable of being cut by a sharp instrument.
    • 1620, Francis Bacon, Natural History:
      The differences of impressible and not impressible, figurable and not figurable, mouldable and not mouldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions, applied unto the instruments and uses which men ordinarily practice .
    • 1917 October 9, Otto Braedt, “1242648: Fly-Catcher”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:
      The herein described article comprising a rolled-up sheet of thin soft material coated with an adhesive substance, stiffening strips of scissible material secured to opposite ends of the sheet , a plurality of suspension loops secured to one end of the sheet. and a wrapper of scissible material inclosing the body o fhte sheet with the suspension loops projecting therefrom andd serving to indicate the lines upon which the article can be severed into a plurality of individual fly catchers, weach including a portion of the sheet, one of the suspension loops, and a section of the wrapper.
  2. (biochemistry, of a bond) That can be severed or broken (often by a specific enzyme or catalyst).
    • 1988, A. Asghar, A. R. Bhatti, “Endogenous Proteolytic Enzymes”, in Advances in Food Research, volume 31, page 345:
      The former need the presence of either a free α-NH2 or a α-COOH group adjacent to scissible bond, whereas the latter cleaves peptide bonds of the polypeptide chain distant to the termini.
    • 1996, Thrombosis and Haemostasis:
      This latter Ca2+ site, of unknown location, is influenced by Asp residues at P3(D1670 and P3' (D172) of the scissible activation peptide bond of PC
    • 2007, Current Topics in Developmental Biology - Volume 79, page 111:
      It indicates that energy requirements for elastolysis by elastases are similar to most enzyme-catalyzed reactions, suggesting that scissible peptide bonds in elastin are accessible to these elastases.
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