micropattern

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noun

A microscopic pattern.

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Meanings

nounmicropattern (plural micropatterns)

plural micropatterns

  1. A microscopic pattern.
verbmicropattern (third-person singular simple present micropatterns, present participle micropatterning, simple past and past participle micropatterned)

present singular third person micropatterns · participle present micropatterning · participle past micropatterned · past micropatterned

  1. engineeringTo control the spatial arrangement of objects at the microscopic level

    These modified substrates are utilized to pattern a single cell type, or to micropattern two cell types to control their level of interaction.

    1999, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, “Micropatterning cells in tissue engineering”, in Morgan & Yarmush, editors, Tissue Engineering Methods and Protocols, →ISBN, page 352

Origin

From micro- + pattern. Piecewise doublet of micropatron.

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Chicago

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