Noun. 1. moniker-a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph; Henry's nickname was Slim.byname, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet.oun. 1. moniker-a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph; Henry's nickname was Slim.
- Water activity is a better index for microbial growth than water content since microorganism only uses available water of the food sample. Some factors affecting the responses of microorganisms to water activity are the production of metabolites, taxonomic classification and solute concentration.
understand the role of bacteria in pelagic ecosystems. The factors affecting bacterial growth are numerous and not yet well understood. In particular, it is not clear what limits the growth of bacteria in nature, but it is of general interest to know which chemical element lim- its bacterial growth, especially for ecological modeling.