monostrands

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...

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