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multichimera en · NOUN

Etymology

From multi- + chimera.

Meanings

1. A chimera containing genetically distinct cells originating from three or more zygotes.
   • The formation of Botryllus multichimeras sets the 'group level' (the assemblage of several genotypes into one unified entity) as the key level at which natural selection acts. 2004, Jules Hoffmann, Primitive Immune Systems - Issue 198, page 31:
   • However, it was suggested that potentially losing genotypes (defined as such in bi-chimeras scenario) might survive in multichimera entities as stem cells in refugia and successfully propagate to succeeding generations. 2009, Baruch Rinkevich, Valeria Matranga, Stem Cells in Marine Organisms, →ISBN, page 12:
   • Around the time of the events that led to your birth, there was no longer anything new even about multichimeras. 2006, Rusty Morrison, Ken Edward Keegan, ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction, →ISBN:
2. A complex spatiotemporal pattern consisting of multiple coexisting domains of synchronized dynamics within a domain of incoherent dynamics, produced by a system of nonlocally coupled oscillators.
   • The multichimera state is shown to have a power law distribution of synchronized cluster sizes, whose exponent is found to be independent of the system parameters.. 2016, Amitava Banerjee, Muktish Acharyya, “Synchronized, Chimera and Multichimera States in Simple Cellular Automata Model of Coupled Oscillators”, in arXiv:

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