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kmer

kmer noun: a motif of length "k".

Noun (1)

kmer (plural kmers)

  1. A motif of length "k"
    • BioVelocity could not run on normal cluster architectures with limited memory, or would take orders of magnitude longer if secondary storage were used for the kmer hash tables.2015, Shanmuga Sozhamannan et al., “Evaluation of Signature Erosion in Ebola Virus Due to Genomic Drift and Its Impact on the Performance of Diagnostic Assays”, in Viruses, volume 7, →DOI

Proper noun capitalized: Kmer

Kmer

  1. (archaic) Archaic form of Khmer.

Noun (2) capitalized: Kmer

Kmer (plural Kmers or Kmer)

  1. (archaic) Archaic form of Khmer.

Adjective capitalized: Kmer

Kmer (comparative more Kmer, superlative most Kmer)

  1. (archaic) Archaic form of Khmer.

Forms of kmer

Noun
pluralkmers
pluralKmers
pluralKmer
Adjective
comparativemore Kmer
superlativemost Kmer

Origin of kmer

From k + -mer.

Words that rhyme with kmer

Questions about kmer

What does kmer mean?
Kmer means a motif of length "k".
What part of speech is kmer?
Kmer can be a noun, a proper noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of kmer?
The plural of kmer is kmers.

Words near kmer in the dictionary

  1. KMA
  2. KMAG
  3. kmc
  4. kmcs
  5. Kmeph
  6. kmer
  7. kmers
  8. kmet
  9. kmetovi
  10. kmets
  11. Kmetz

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