decamer

D2E1C3A1M3E1R1

noun

An oligomer having ten subunits.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

noundecamer (plural decamers)

plural decamers

  1. An oligomer having ten subunits.

    In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].

    2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*déḱm̥
  2. Proto-Hellenic*dékə
  3. Ancient Greekδέκᾰ (dékă)
  4. Ancient Greekδεκάς (dekás)
  5. Late Latindecas
  6. Frenchdéca-
  7. Englishdeca-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*(s)mer-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*(s)méros
  10. Proto-Hellenic*(h)méros
  11. Ancient Greekμέρος (méros)
  12. Englishdecamer

From deca- + -mer.

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APA

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