labeling

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noun

A set of labels applied to the various objects in a system, to packaged goods, and so on; the act or process of applying them.

“Near-synonyms: (for packaged goods) branding, trade dress”

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Meanings

nounlabeling (countable and uncountable, plural labelings)

plural labelings · alternative labelling

  1. countableuncountableA set of labels applied to the various objects in a system, to packaged goods, and so on; the act or process of applying them.

    Near-synonyms: (for packaged goods) branding, trade dress

    2 more examples

    The labeling is required to include the nutrition facts itemized in 21 CFR 101.9.

    4:00PM (722) An upper bound for the number of graceful labelings of a path with n edges. Sylvia R. Naples, Bard College

    2009 January, Bernard Russo, James J. Tattersall, “Program of the Sessions: Washington, District of Columbia, January 5-8, 2009”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 56:1http://www.ams.org/notices/200901/, page 143

    Synonyms: tagging, branding, trade dress

  2. countableuncountablebiochemistryThe introduction of a traceable chemical group (e.g., containing an isotope or a fluorescent dye) into a protein or other biomolecule of interest so it can be tracked or quantified during experimental analysis.

    There are two potential problems with this approach: first, the specificity of labeling depends on the purity of the LPS (if contaminants are present, they may be labeled also); second, removal of the label from the LPS in vivo might occur separately from processing of the LPS molecule itself.

    1992, David C. Morrison, John Louis Ryan, Bacterial Endotoxic Lipopolysaccharides: Molecular biochemistry and cellular biology, →ISBN, page 407

    Synonyms: tagging

verb

alternative labelling

  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of label

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA set of labels applied to the various objects in a system, to packaged goods, and so on; the act or process of applying them.

nounThe introduction of a traceable chemical group (e.g., containing an isotope or a fluorescent dye) into a protein or other biomolecule of interest so it can be tracked or quantified during experimental analysis.

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Translations

Bulgarian етикети́ране
  • етикети́ране (etiketírane)set of labels
Catalan etiquetatge
  • etiquetatgeset of labels
Finnish merkintä
  • merkintäset of labels
French étiquetage
  • étiquetageset of labels
German Etikettierung, Kennzeichnung
  • Etikettierungset of labels
  • Kennzeichnungset of labels
Italian etichettatura
  • etichettaturaset of labels
Spanish etiquetaje, etiquetado
  • etiquetajeset of labels
  • etiquetadoset of labels
  • rotulaciónset of labels
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