labeling en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A set of labels applied to the various objects in a system, to packaged goods, and so on; the act or process of applying them.
4:00PM (722) An upper bound for the number of graceful labelings of a path with n edges. Sylvia R. Naples, Bard College
2009 January, Bernard Russo, James J. Tattersall, “Program of the Sessions: Washington, District of Columbia, January 5-8, 2009”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 56:1http://www.ams.org/notices/200901/, page 143:Near-synonyms: (for packaged goods) branding, trade dress
The labeling is required to include the nutrition facts itemized in 21 CFR 101.9.
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(countable, uncountable) The introduction of a traceable chemical group (e.g., containing an isotope or a fluorescent dye) into a protein or other biomolecule of interest so it can be tracked or quantified during experimental analysis.
There are two potential problems with this approach: first, the specificity of labeling depends on the purity of the LPS (if contaminants are present, they may be labeled also); second, removal of the label from the LPS in vivo might occur separately from processing of the LPS molecule itself.
1992, David C. Morrison, John Louis Ryan, Bacterial Endotoxic Lipopolysaccharides: Molecular biochemistry and cellular biology, →ISBN, page 407:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| labelling | alternative | lexicographic | |
| labelings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
photolabeling · biolabeling · colabeling · phospholabeling · photoaffinity labeling · green labeling
Synonyms
branding · tagging · tagging · trade dress
Translations (12)
es etiquetaje (set of labels) · fr étiquetage (set of labels) · gl etiquetaxe (set of labels) · es etiquetado (set of labels) · it etichettatura (set of labels) · de Etikettierung (set of labels) · ca etiquetatge (set of labels) · es rotulación (set of labels) · fi merkintä (set of labels) · de Kennzeichnung (set of labels) · gl etiquetado (set of labels) · bg етикети́ране (set of labels)