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molecule

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, "extremely minute particle," from French molécule (1670s), from Modern Latin molecula , diminutive of Latin moles "mass, barrier" (see mole (3)). A vague meaning at first; the vogue for the word (used until late 18c. only in Latin form) can be traced ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: atom , particle , corpuscle , mote , speck ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Molecule \Mol"e*cule\, n. [Dim. fr. L. moles a mass: cf. F. mol['e]cule. See 3d Mole .] One of the very small invisible particles of which all ordinary matter is supposed to consist. (Physics) The smallest part of any substance which possesses the ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a chain of atoms/molecules etc technical: ▪ Most fabrics are made of long chains of molecules. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE complex ▪ Indeed, many of the complex molecules of which they are composed would be ...

Usage examples of molecule.

Slight imperfections in the match were negotiated by a jostling crowd of donor or acceptor molecules.

But when the atoms come under the influence of the higher-level morphogenetic field of a molecule, these probabilities are modified in such a way that the probability of events leading toward the actualization of the final form are enhanced, while the probability of other events is diminished.

Virtually all the food and oxygen you take into your body are delivered, after processing, to the mitochondria, where they are converted into a molecule called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP.

Though burdened by the giant molecules, his sympathetic nervous system and adrenal glands, which were particularly affected in others, were quite indifferent to the asps.

They lie here trapped in glass, little two-carbon aliphatic molecules that can drown regret, banish fear, and ease the ache of conscience.

The molecule of estrone, for instance, differs from that of androsterone only in the presence of three double bonds and in the absence of carbon-ig.

But if the relation of liquids to their vapors be that here shadowed forth, if in both cases the molecule asserts itself to be the dominant factor, then the dispersion of the water of our seas and rivers, as invisible aqueous vapor in our atmosphere, does not annul the action of the molecules on solar and terrestrial heat.

These crystals were analyzed and it was reported that within each secretin molecule there existed 3 lysines, 2 arginines, 2 prolines, i histi-dine, i glutamic acid, i aspartic acid, and i methionine.

We link the astatine isotope to carrier molecules that seek out the disseminated microscopic cancers in your brain.

Inhaled sodium azide goes into the lungs and directly into the blood, where its molecules bond with oxygen molecules and render the oxygen unusable.

Ever since the first dab of living substance was brewed up in the amino-acid-tainted soups of azoic oceans on our primordial Earth, and the first simple prototypes of the double-helix DNA molecules of heredity appeared, biological forms have been becoming more complex--learning, acquiring more know-how.

Bit by bit, loosened molecule by loosened molecule, in accordance with the patient, relentless laws of chemistry, the sinew slowly dissolved, weakening the bond which held the compressed, contorted, sharpened baleen, until the slender bond broke.

Apparently the molecule caused a very complex cascade effect, in which the release of certain biogenic amines caused the release of other chemicals, and so on.

Plus we need to get the molecule from Bowden and put that in the same escrow.

The chloroplasts of a plant cell-small green particles containing chlorophyll-absorb the energy of sunlight to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen atoms.