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transmembrane

transmembrane adjective: traversing a cellular membrane.

transmembrane: traversing a cellular membrane
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Adjective

transmembrane (not comparable)

  1. Traversing a cellular membrane.
  2. Of or pertaining to a transmembrane protein or segment.

Noun

transmembrane (plural transmembranes)

  1. a transmembrane protein, or the transmembrane portion of a protein

transmembrane meaning in Hindi and Bengali

transmembrane in Hindi

Traversing a cellular membrane
पराझिल्ली parājhillī

transmembrane in Bengali

কোষের পর্দা অতিক্রম করা, একটি ট্রান্সমেমব্রেন প্রোটিন

Forms of transmembrane

pluraltransmembranes

Origin of transmembrane

From trans- + membrane.

Words formed from transmembrane

Phrases with transmembrane

Words that rhyme with transmembrane

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Questions about transmembrane

What does transmembrane mean?
Transmembrane means traversing a cellular membrane.
What is transmembrane in Hindi?
Transmembrane in Hindi is पराझिल्ली (parājhillī). See Transmembrane meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is transmembrane?
Transmembrane can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near transmembrane in the dictionary

  1. transmedullary
  2. transmeiotic
  3. transmember
  4. transmembranal
  5. transmembrance
  6. transmembrane
  7. transmembrane distillation
  8. transmembrane protein
  9. transmembrane proteins
  10. transmembraneous
  11. transmembranes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: transmembrane (page history and authors); transmembrane (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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