monostrand

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noun

An tendon that is composed of a single wire or bar.

Scrabble 13

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nounmonostrand (plural monostrands)

plural monostrands

  1. attributiveoftenengineeringAn tendon that is composed of a single wire or bar.

    Formwork was removed after 24 hours, as the compressive strength of the RPC reached 50 MPa. It was then possible to prestress the diagonals' monostrands and to lift the segment. A 48-hours heat treatment was then applied by injecting 90 C water vapor under a plastic enclosure (Fig. 6).

    1998, Pierre-Claude Aïtcin, Mohamed Lachemi, Regis Adeline, Pierre Richard, “The Sherbrooke Reactive Powder Concrete Footbridge”, in Structural Engineering International, volume 8, number 2, →DOI
  2. attributiveoftenmolecular biologyA macromolecular structure composed of a single strand (nucleotide chain).

    This relatively small proportion is explained by the fact that a certain number of the reads identified by Ghildiyal et al. represent monostrands without a reverse complement in the transcriptome and, predominantly, piwi RNAs excluded from our lists.

    2020, Claude Pasquier, Sandra Agnel, Alain Robichon, “Transcriptome-wide-scale-predicted dsRNAs potentially involved in RNA homoeostasis are remarkably excluded from genes with no/very low expression in all developmental stages”, in RNA Biology, volume 17, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, page 13
adjectivemonostrand (not comparable)
  1. not comparableresearch designUsing only one strand (qualitative or quantitative) of data analysis by converting data that was gathered using the methods of the other strand (converting qualitative data to numerical values, or quantitative data into qualitative descriptions).

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