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Etymology

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auto- +‎ inducing

Adjective

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autoinducing (not comparable)

  1. That promotes autoinduction.
    • 2015 July 22, “A Synthetic Quorum Sensing System Reveals a Potential Private Benefit for Public Good Production in a Biofilm”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      The Sender cell contains the entire agr operon (P2-agrBDCA) and can thus both secrete and sense AIP, the autoinducing peptide.