effector

• effecter
• effectour (obsolete)

From effect + -or.

• enPR: ĭ-fĕk′tər
• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪˈfek.tə/; (also Received Pronunciation) /ɪˈfɛk.tə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪˈfɛk.təɹ/

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˈfek.tə/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɪˈfɛk.təɾ/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ɪˈfɛ(ː)k.ʈɜː(ɾ)/, /ɪˈfɛ(ː)k.ʈəɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: ef‧fec‧tor

effector (plural effectors)

1. (biology) Any muscle, organ etc. that can respond to a stimulus from a nerve.
2. (biology) The part of a nerve that carries a stimulus to a muscle etc.
3. (biology) Any small molecule that effects the function of an enzyme by binding to an allosteric site.
4. (clarification of this definition is needed (e.g. in some cruise missiles?)) An actuator.

• receptor

• “effector”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

From effectus + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛfˈfɛk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [efˈfɛk.tor]
• Hyphenation: ef‧fec‧tor

effector m (genitive effectōris, feminine effectrīx); third declension

1. effecter, producer, cause

Third-declension noun.

• “effector”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “effector”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “effector”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “effector”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.