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dimer
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
oligomer \o*lig"o*mer\, n. (Chem.) A molecule composed of a small number of linked monomer units; a short polymer; -- compounds called oligomers have less than one hundred monomer units and usually less than thirty. Oligomers of increasing length are called ...
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Dimer may refer to: Dimer (chemistry) , a chemical structure formed from two similar sub-units Protein dimer , a protein quaternary structure Dimer model , an item in statistical mechanics Julius Dimer (1871–1945), a German chess master Dimerous refers ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chemistry English) A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a compound whose molecules are composed of two identical monomers
Usage examples of dimer.
Ellery Dimer, in Kansas City, and we would like to have any information you can give us.
His men grabbed Dimer in New York, and Dimer figured he was lucky to even get away.
Doc got hold of the gun arm and there was a dull breaking sound and Dimer began shrieking in agony.
The vault door had not been locked at the time, and Dimer had experienced no trouble in walking out.
New York got a fresh batch of patients which included Dimer and Anderson and their associates.
As soon as he came into the house he went into the kitchen, where she was preparing dimer, and mixed them both a gin and tonic.
Penrose proposes that each dimer is a basic computational unit, operating using quantum effects.
There are about ten million dimers per neuron, and because of their tiny size each one ought to operate about a million times as fast as a neuron can fire.
The microtubules’ structure consisted of hollow tubes made of thirteen columns of tubulin dimers, peanut-shaped globular protein pairs, each about eight-by-four-by-four nanometers, existing in two different configurations, depending on their electrical polarization.
So the dimers represented a possible on-off switch of the hoped-for engrain.
A great number of experiments on living monkey brains, with miniaturized instrumentation of many different kinds, had established that while consciousness was thinking, amino-acid sequences were shifting, tub-ulin dimers in many different places in the brain were changing configuration, in pulsed phases.
At an extremely fine level of structure in the brain, much of one’s past was contained, encoded in a unique complex network of synapses, microtubules, dimers and vicinal water and amino-acid chains, all small enough and near enough together to have quantum effects on each other.
So the dimers represented a possible on-off switch of the hoped-for engram.
A great number of experiments on living monkey brains, with miniaturized instrumentation of many different kinds, had established that while consciousness was thinking, amino-acid sequences were shifting, tubulin dimers in many different places in the brain were changing configuration, in pulsed phases.
The microtubules' structure consisted of hollow tubes made of thirteen columns of tubulin dimers, peanut-shaped globular protein pairs, each about eight-by-four-by-four nanometers, existing in two different configurations, depending on their electrical polarization.