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Noun
For serious training the features are unbeatable, as the fenix 8 can detect lactate threshold and even estimate VO2 Max, which usually requires an expensive treadmill test with specialized equipment.—Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 This boosts your aerobic metabolism, and helps explain why the blood tests also showed that resting lactate levels dropped by 15 percent after the breath-holds.—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
Verb
The Pump for Nursing Mothers Act, part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), requires employers to provide reasonable break times and private, non-bathroom spaces for lactating employees to express milk.—Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024 The daily adequate intake (AI) levels for choline in adults are 550 milligrams in males and people lactating, 425 mg in females, and 450 mg in pregnant people.—Kirstyn Hill, Pharmd, Mph, Health, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for lactate
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Latin lactatus, past participle of lactare, from lact-, lac
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