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dendrimer

dendrimer noun: any polymer or oligomer having multiple branches of atoms strung off a central spine.

Noun

dendrimer (plural dendrimers)

  1. Any polymer or oligomer having multiple branches of atoms strung off a central spine.
  2. A graph formed of branches from a central core.

Forms of dendrimer

pluraldendrimers

Origin of dendrimer

From dendr- + -mer.

Words formed from dendrimer

Questions about dendrimer

What does dendrimer mean?
Dendrimer means any polymer or oligomer having multiple branches of atoms strung off a central spine.
What part of speech is dendrimer?
Dendrimer is a noun.
What is the plural of dendrimer?
The plural of dendrimer is dendrimers.

Words near dendrimer in the dictionary

  1. dendrifications
  2. dendriform
  3. dendrigraft
  4. dendrigrafts
  5. dendrillolide
  6. dendrimer
  7. dendrimeric
  8. dendrimers
  9. dendrimersome
  10. dendrimersomes
  11. dendriole

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