Sentence examples for pinching off from inspiring English sources
verb
Present participle of pinch off
The AlN layers show high chemical stability but undergo dissolution by pinching off at grain boundaries.
Another important chore is deadheading, pinching off the faded flowers promptly.
As the fruit fly embryo develops, a special group cells can be seen pinching off at the posterior end.
These methods are robust, efficient, and capable of computing interface singularities such as merging and pinching off.
A few manage to slim down to almost bacterial dimensions by pinching off unnecessary hanks of their cytoplasm.
Allow the beans to cool for several minutes, then slip off their skins by pinching off the eye of the skin and squeezing gently.
We observe three typical behaviors of the liquid bridge: (1) reaching a stable shape after damped oscillations (regime I); (2) pinching off at both sides in the first necking stage with the largest oscillation amplitude (regime II); and (3) pinching off at only the upper side after once or twice necking (regime III).
A new thermally activated mechanism of SFT formation directly from vacancy clusters resulting from local dipole pinching-off is reported.
After pinching-off, the clathrin coat is rapidly disassembled to allow the vesicle to fuse with the next compartment.
For example, some viruses including human immunodeficiency virus bud from the plasma membrane and release the virion from host cells by pinching-off.
Lysosomes receive extracellular substances for degradation via endocytosis: the invagination and pinching-off of membrane-bound vesicles from the plasma membrane (Fig. 3a).
