AVAILABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does availability mean? 

• AVAILABILITY (noun)
  The noun AVAILABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being at hand when needed

  Familiarity information: AVAILABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVAILABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being at hand when needed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

accessibility; availability; availableness; handiness

Hypernyms ("availability" is a kind of...):

convenience (the quality of being useful and convenient)

Attribute:

accessible (capable of being reached)

inaccessible; unaccessible (capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all)

available (obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service)

unavailable (not available or accessible or at hand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "availability"):

command (availability for use)

print (availability in printed form)

Antonym:

unavailability (the quality of not being available when needed)

Derivation:

available (obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service)

 Context examples 

An additional switch point is the availability of Bad in the cell.

(Ceramide Signaling Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Ciclopirox exerts its action by binding to and chelating trivalent cations, such as Fe3+ and Al3+, thereby inhibiting the availability of essential co-factors for enzymes.

(Ciclopirox, NCI Thesaurus)

Inhaled carbogen reduces diffusion-limited tumor hypoxia, increasing tumor radiosensitivity due to the increased availability of molecular oxygen for cytotoxic radiation-induced oxygen free radical production.

(Carbogen, NCI Thesaurus)

When natural IELs are present, however, the researchers found that they limit the availability of a type of hormones, incretin GLP-1, that help speed up metabolism.

(Some gut cells slow down metabolism, accelerate cardiovascular disease, National Institutes of Health)

As a vitamin K antagonist, acenocoumarol inhibits vitamin K epoxide reductase, thereby inhibiting the reduction of vitamin K and the availability of vitamin KH2.

(Acenocoumarol, NCI Thesaurus)

Increased ACh availability at the motor end plate allows muscles to contract.

(Amifampridine, NCI Thesaurus)

Because it is lipophilic, cositecan exhibits enhanced tissue penetration and bio-availability compared to water-soluble camptothecins.

(Cositecan, NCI Thesaurus)

Because of its oral availability and long plasma half-life, this agent may be superior to desferrioxamine (desferal, DFO), which is orally inactive and has a short plasma half-life.

(Deferasirox, NCI Thesaurus)

Imipramine pamoate, a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) potentiates the activity of adrenergic synapses by blocking the re-uptake of norepinephrine and serotonin, thereby preventing their degradation and increasing their availability.

(Imipramine Pamoate, NCI Thesaurus)

By depleting tetrahydrofolic acid availability, DNA synthesis is halted.

(Ketotrexate, NCI Thesaurus)