cotranslation

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noun

The joint translation of a work from one language to another by more than one person.

Scrabble 15

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nouncotranslation (countable and uncountable, plural cotranslations)

plural cotranslations

  1. countableuncountableThe joint translation of a work from one language to another by more than one person.
  2. countableuncountablemathematicsAn equivalence map that is the dual of a translation.
  3. countableuncountablebiologyThe process by which multiple ribosomes simultaneously translate a single mRNA molecule into multiple copies of the same protein.

    Immunoprecipitation then indicated that cotranslation resulted in stable complex formation of Kox1/TIF1B and Kox1KL/TIF1B (Fig. 18.2A, lane 4 and Fig. 18.2B, lane 11).

    2012, James R. Swartz, Cell-Free Protein Expression, →ISBN, page 156

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