Dictionary

racemate en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹeɪ-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɹæsəˌmeɪt/ (General-American)
• /ˈɹeɪ-/ (General-American)
• /ˈɹæsɪmeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From racem(ic) + -ate.

Meanings

1. A mixture which is racemic (“containing equal amounts of dextrorotatory and levorotatory stereoisomers and therefore not optically active”).
   • Тhe greatest racemate contents were found in the products prepared in dimethylformamide and dimethylsulphoxide. 1965, Acta chimica - Volume 44, page 74:
   • Let us discuss different scenarios that may arise from a racemate consisting of two enantiomers. 2004, Indra K. Reddy, Reza Mehvar, Chirality in Drug Design and Development, page 424:

Forms

Deriveds

pseudoracemate · quasiracemate

Translations (10)

it racemato (mixture which is racemic) · es mezcla racémica (mixture which is racemic) · de Razemat (mixture which is racemic) · pl mieszanina racemiczna (mixture which is racemic) · fi raseeminen seos (mixture which is racemic) · zh 外消旋混合物 (mixture which is racemic) · it racemo (mixture which is racemic) · zh 外消旋化合物 (mixture which is racemic) · zh 外消旋體 /外消旋体 (mixture which is racemic) · pl racemat (mixture which is racemic)

racemate en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From racemic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

Meanings

1. (archaic) Any salt or ester of racemic acid.

Forms

Deriveds

dextro-racemate · racemated · laevo-racemate

Translations (2)

fi raseeminen suola (salt or ester of racemic acid) · fi raseeminen esteri (ester) (salt or ester of racemic acid)

racemate en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹeɪsˌmeɪt/ (General-American)
• /ˈɹeɪsmeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From race (“contest where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective”) + -mate (suffix forming nouns having the sense of ‘those with whom what is denoted by the nouns are shared’).

Meanings

1. One participating in the same race as others.
   • Many environmental factors, such as track condition or shape, racing strategy or quality of racemates, modify the expression of true speed by a horse in a race and thereby bias performance records. 1981, Virginia Tech Livestock Research Report, page 44:
   • A second three-car pileup happened later on. [Scott] Tucker’s racemate Guy Cosmo avoided the accidents. 2018, M. Weber, “Rough Start”, in Wild Moments of Sports Car Racing, North Mankato, Minn.: Edge Books, →ISBN, page 15:
   • Differences in time at finish, time minus time of winner, and time minus racemate average for various track conditions are given in Tables 15, 16, and 17, respectively. 1977, Richard Lee Hintz, Factors Influencing Racing Performance of the Standardbred Racer, page 28:
   • The interpretation of pace or purse is complicated by the fact that the data reflect not only the performance of the horse but the decisions and behavior of the track officials, the driver, the owner, racemates, etc. 1989, EAAP Publication, →ISBN, page 132:

Forms

Translations (1)

fi kisakumppani (one participating in the same race as others)

racemate en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

• /ˈɹeɪsˌmeɪt/ (General-American)
• /ˈɹeɪsmeɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From race (“group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage or physical characteristics”) + -mate (suffix forming nouns having the sense of ‘those with whom what is denoted by the nouns are shared’).

Meanings

1. (rare) A person of the same racial group as others.
   • if you still lay claim to the achievements your ancestors and racemates carried out, you must also share the guilt for their crimes 1994 June 16, “A harmless question”, in alt.skinheads (Usenet):
   • She finds an organizational environment with limited prospects for responsiveness and meaningful exchange, even where, theoretically, one might have expected racial and ethnic affinity to produce responsiveness between racemates. 2013 August 14, Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Gregory Marston, Work and the Welfare State: Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics (Public Management and Change series), Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 275:
   • In Figure 1, Negroes and whites alternate around the circle, so that racemates are isolated from one another communicationally. If they communicate, it must be thru a person of the other race. 1967, Edward V Abner, David W Lewit, “Racial Contact, Personality, and Group Problem Solving”, in Report Resumes, ERIC:
   • I'm 'white' and not so proud of it because of what my 'racemates' have done to the Americans and Africans. :-( 1996 May 8, “I hate being called "African-American"”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Forms

Translations (1)

fi rotukumppani (person of the same racial group as others)