multicorn

Noun

multicorn (plural multicorns)

1. A type of protease.
   • The tricorn protease was first identified in thermophilic bacteria, but a related larger protease called multicorn exists in mammalian cells including hepatocytes (49).2001, Irwin M. Arias, James L. Boyer, The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology, page 221
   • Candidates for these downstream proteases are THIMET, tricorn, multicorn, TPPII, and leucine aminopeptidase.2012, Peter Zwickl, Wolfgang Baumeister, The Proteasome — Ubiquitin Protein Degradation Pathway, →ISBN, page 48
2. A fantastic creature similar to a unicorn but having multiple horns in a column along the center of its head.
   • His body is a spider with wings of a butterfly, and his head is a multicorn.1966, The Emmersons and Portsmouth, 1737-1965
   • Long ago there was a man who had a multicorn with which he plowed his land.1991, Nora Erro-Peralta, Caridad Silva-Núñez, Beyond the Border: A New Age in Latin American Women's Fiction
3. The connectedness locus in the space of antiholomorphic unicritical polynomials; The set of parameters for which the Julia set is connected.
   • The main results of the article show that the dynamically natural straightening map from a 'baby multicorn', either in multicorns of even degree or in the real cubic locus, to the original multicorn is discontinuous at infinitely many explicit parameters.2016, Hiroyuki Inou, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, “Discontinuity of straightening in antiholomorphic dynamics”, in arXiv