antiporter
noun
antiporter is a noun meaning “A cell protein that acts within an antiport to transport different molecules or ions across the membrane in opposite directions” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-P-O-R-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antiporter is antiporters.
What does antiporter mean?
noun
- 1
A cell protein that acts within an antiport to transport different molecules or ions across the membrane in opposite directions
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antiporter
- antiporters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiporter?
Antiporter appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antiporter in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a cell protein that acts within an antiport:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antiportador, antitransportador |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.