0 the act of putting something inside something else, or adding something, especially words to something else: --
1 the act of putting one thing into something else, or of adding something to something else: --
The company has encouraged the insertion of exclusion clauses in contracts to prevent executives going over to the competition.
2 an insert noun : --
3 something that you add to something else: --
editorial insertions
Under the ' deleterious ' model, element insertions disrupt gene function and therefore decrease organism fitness.
In this article, geometric and quasi-static analyses of multiple-peg insertions are presented.
The jamming diagrams and the taxonomy of dual-peg insertions are obtained.
Additional notes in the margins of the plan show other possible orderings of the materials or insertions into the main body of the piece.
Our procedures differed somewhat for insertions and substitutions, but both involved finding the mutations, finding their flanking sequences, and checking for formation of new repeats.
An expansion by insertions of transposable elements might lead to the observation that chromosome 4 of japonica is probably larger than that of indica.
The discrepancy with the results obtained on gpa-2 insertions might be due to the sample size.
The total number of insertions increased from generation 50 (from 97 in generation 50 to 186 in generation 85).
