EXCHANGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exchanger mean? 

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

1. one whose business is to exchange the money of one country for that of another country

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCHANGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One whose business is to exchange the money of one country for that of another country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

exchanger; money changer

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

money dealer; money handler (a person who receives or invests or pays out money)

Derivation:

exchange (exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category)

 Context examples 

Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 2 protein (1606 aa, ~183 kDa) is encoded by the human PREX2 gene.

(Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-Trisphosphate-Dependent Rac Exchanger 2 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate-dependent Rac exchanger 1 protein (1659 aa, ~186 kDa) is encoded by the human PREX1 gene.

(Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-Trisphosphate-Dependent Rac Exchanger 1 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The bicarbonate ion is transported to the blood side by the anion exchanger type 1.

(Collecting Duct Acid Secretion Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Recovery occurs as Ca2+ is pumped out of the cell by the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger (NCX) or is returned to the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) by sarco(endo)plasmic Ca2+ -ATPase (SERCA) pumps on the non-junctional region of the SR.

(Cardiac Muscle Contraction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)