Translations for „avidity“ in the English » German Dictionary

avid·ity [əˈvɪdəti, Am -ət̬i] N no pl

avidity (enthusiasm) for

Begeisterung f für +acc

avidity for

Leidenschaftlichkeit f für +acc

avidity (greed) for

Begierde f nach +dat

avidity for

Gier f nach +dat

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Power and the masculine element of fire with its connotations of heat, vigor, aspiration, contest, enlightenment, and avidity to consume.

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White blood cells are activated by upregulation of integrin avidity, the lipoxygenase pathway and arachidonic acid metabolism.

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I read with avidity all of his writings.

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There's little spirit to the conversation, filled with hot air rather than avidity.

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The interactions of clustered proteins for multivalent ligands are described by avidities (avidity), while matricity describes a semisolid state interaction of a matrix with its environment.

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Mischievous avidity for headlines is no substitute for talent or hard work.

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And there is an infectious avidity to him: he gets springy, as if his famously electric curls, now shorn from his head, had taken up residence inside his body.

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It was his fortune furthermore to live in an age when occasions of dispute were legion; and he threw himself with avidity into their several aspects.

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As such, avidity is distinct from affinity, which describes the strength of a "single" interaction.

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In political economy this avidity for facts produced better fruits.

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