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decamer

decamer noun: an oligomer having ten subunits.

Noun

decamer (plural decamers)

  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 of decamer

pluraldecamers

Origin of decamer

From deca- + -mer.

Words formed from decamer

Questions about decamer

What does decamer mean?
Decamer means an oligomer having ten subunits.
What part of speech is decamer?
Decamer is a noun.
What is the plural of decamer?
The plural of decamer is decamers.

Words near decamer in the dictionary

  1. decalogy
  2. decalone
  3. decalones
  4. decals
  5. decalumen
  6. decamer
  7. decameric
  8. decameride
  9. decamerides
  10. Decameron
  11. Decameronesque

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