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monostrand

monostrand noun: an tendon that is composed of a single wire or bar.

Noun

monostrand (plural monostrands)

  1. (attributive, often) An tendon that is composed of a single wire or bar.
    • Formwork was removed after 24 hours, as the compressive strength of the RPC reached 50 MPa. It was then possible to prestress the diagonals' monostrands and to lift the segment. A 48-hours heat treatment was then applied by injecting 90 C water vapor under a plastic enclosure (Fig. 6).1998, Pierre-Claude Aïtcin, Mohamed Lachemi, Regis Adeline, Pierre Richard, “The Sherbrooke Reactive Powder Concrete Footbridge”, in Structural Engineering International, volume 8, number 2, →DOI
  2. (attributive, often, molecular biology) A macromolecular structure composed of a single strand (nucleotide chain).
    • This relatively small proportion is explained by the fact that a certain number of the reads identified by Ghildiyal et al. represent monostrands without a reverse complement in the transcriptome and, predominantly, piwi RNAs excluded from our lists.2020, Claude Pasquier, Sandra Agnel, Alain Robichon, “Transcriptome-wide-scale-predicted dsRNAs potentially involved in RNA homoeostasis are remarkably excluded from genes with no/very low expression...

Adjective

monostrand (not comparable)

  1. (research design) Using only one strand (qualitative or quantitative) of data analysis by converting data that was gathered using the methods of the other strand (converting qualitative data to numerical values, or quantitative data into qualitative descriptions).

Forms of monostrand

pluralmonostrands

Origin of monostrand

From mono- + strand.

Questions about monostrand

What does monostrand mean?
Monostrand means an tendon that is composed of a single wire or bar.
What part of speech is monostrand?
Monostrand can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of monostrand?
The plural of monostrand is monostrands.

Words near monostrand in the dictionary

  1. monostomatous
  2. monostome
  3. monostomes
  4. monostomous
  5. monostotic
  6. monostrand
  7. monostrands
  8. monostratal
  9. monostratification
  10. monostratified
  11. monostromatic

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