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decamer en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Hellenic *dékə Ancient Greek δέκᾰ (dékă) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ς (-ắs) Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás)der. Late Latin decasder. French déca-bor. English deca- Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *(s)méros Proto-Hellenic *(h)méros Ancient Greek μέρος (méros)lbor. English -mer English decamer From deca- + -mer.

Meanings

  1. An oligomer having ten subunits.
    • In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ]. 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Forms

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Coordinates

tetramer · nonamer · pentamer · septamer · hexamer · trimer · heptamer · dimer · monomer · polymer · octamer

Deriveds

homodecamer · heterodecamer · decameric · didecamer

Hypernyms

molecule · compound · oligomer