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molecular

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or produced by or consisting of molecules; "molecular structure"; "molecular oxygen"; "molecular weight is the sum of all the atoms in a molecul" relating to simple or elementary organization; "proceed by more and more detailed analysis ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, from molecule + -ar or else from French moléculaire or Modern Latin molecularis . Molecular biology first attested 1950.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context chemistry English) Relating to, or consisting of, or produced by molecules.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Molecular \Mo*lec"u*lar\, a. [Cf. F. mol['e]culare. See Molecule .] (Phys. & Chem.) Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc. Molecular attraction (Phys.), attraction ...

Usage examples of molecular.

According to his suit sensors, the spaces between the interlocking struts contained a thin molecular haze from the slowly ablating metal.

This material was another strictly non-Mesklinite product, a piece of molecular architecture vaguely analogous to zeolite in structure, which adsorbed hydrogen on the inner walls of its structural channels and, within a wide temperature range, maintained an equilibrium partial pressure with the gas which was compatible with Mesklinite metabolic needs.

It will mean discarding many shibboleths, the naive molecular reductionism of the biochemists, the and behaviourism of the psychologists, but we can see the goal clearly.

Stuart Kauffman, chief scientific officer and co-founder of Cistem Molecular and leading entrepreneur in the developing field of bioinformatics, discusses how computers may be used to determine the circuitry and logic of genes and cells.

The epicentre, where the Lady Macbeth had plunged into the drive-fomented particles, was still glowing a nervous blue as brumal waves of static washed through the thinning molecular zephyr of vaporized rock and ice.

Earth always bargained hard for what they sold, and had a monopoly on the finest synthesizer patterns, those that enabled molecular synthesis on say, caff and fine wines, patterns that subtly changed from year to year, each variation available at very high cost.

In the starpatterns he saw the origin: light, the ardor and selflessness of It, the chthonic journey, descanting into geometry, echoing across the shell of time as language: mesons talking atoms into being, molecular communities communicating, no end to It, only addition, time, the futureless deception, until the final addition, the mindfire of consciousness that burns through the drug of dreams and anneals the pain of living with the living pain.

Whether the more excited was zincoid or cuproid depended on the substance and its molecular condition.

Rather than try to improve on the existing methods of desalting, I wanted to deal with it at a molecular or even nuclear level.

The desalting process involves a complex molecular metamorphosis that works only in the presence of a rare substance.

Esolesy Ki the Lishcyn but not the Esen of my core, warming the surrounding air slightly with the exothermic result, exulting in the expansion of sensation and relief of effort as my molecular self assumed its true configuration: the teardrop web-form of my kind.

The miniature transceiver built into the sides of the sheath probed the grass with sonics to analyze its molecular structure, then broadcast the data to Fess, who determined if any of the molecules were incompatible with human metabolism.

I have injected contains a type of sugar, fucose, which the brain uses to synthesize some of the vital molecular components of its nerve cell membranes.

A word of caution: such powerful radiant energy has several effects upon targets, including disassociation of molecular bonds.

The hemoglobin takes up molecular oxygen in the lung capillaries, ozonizes it, and since hemin is easily reduced, the red cells give up oxygen to the muscle cells that need it, in return for carbon dioxide.