Crossword clues for conformer
conformer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conformer \Con*form"er\, n. One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context chemistry English) Any of a set of stereoisomers characterised by a conformation that corresponds to a distinct potential energy minimum. 2 (context biochemistry English) A particular folded state or conformation of a protein, especially an abnormal conformation of a prion Etymology 2
n. A person who conforms; a conformist
Wikipedia
Conformer is a clear plastic shell fitted after Eye removal operation if the final artificial eye is not available at the time of surgery to hold the shape of the eye socket and allow the eyelids to blink over the shell without rubbing the suture line. The conformer shell holds the shape ready for the artificial eye. The conformer shell will be worn for six to eight weeks after surgery. Some ocularists will make a temporary artificial eye which can be worn as the conformer shell.
Usage examples of "conformer".
Zarin sat on it now, with Kell sitting in the same conformer chair he’d had for over twenty years.
Homn placed the tray on the glass coffee table that sat on the Eridat rug between the sofa and the conformer chair.
Homn placed the tray on the glass coffee table that sat on theEridat rug between the sofa and the conformer chair.
She has a pattern of life which divides people into conformers and nonconformers.
The conformers pay their bills the first of the month, go to church, never by any chance get into anything but the society columns of the newspapers, and regard marriage as the sine qua non of every female over twenty.
The sort of men who can be looked for under it, are either mere conformers to commonplace, or time-servers for truth whose arguments on all great subjects are meant for their hearers, and are not those which have convinced themselves.
It was the establishment, the conformers, the apparatchiki, the conservatives.