facultative
pronunciation
How to pronounce facultative in British English:
UK ['fækəltətɪv]
How to pronounce facultative in American English:
US ['fækəlˌteɪtɪv]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to the mental faculties
- able to exist under more than one set of conditions
- granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something
- not compulsory
Word Origin
Example
- 1. Method for determination of thermophilic aerobes and facultative anaerobes .
- 2. Isolation and characterization of nonfermentative facultative anaerobic bacteria from shiangshan wetland .
- 3. Any direct business or facultative reinsurance business , being general business , in relation to which the risk is underwritten in hong kong , that is to say .
- 4. What is a facultative parasite ?
- 5. Aerobic , facultative and anaerobic gram-negative bacilli .