multicorn

plural multicorns

1. biochemistryA type of protease.

   Candidates for these downstream proteases are THIMET, tricorn, multicorn, TPPII, and leucine aminopeptidase.

   2012, Peter Zwickl, Wolfgang Baumeister, The Proteasome — Ubiquitin Protein Degradation Pathway, →ISBN, page 48

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   The tricorn protease was first identified in thermophilic bacteria, but a related larger protease called multicorn exists in mammalian cells including hepatocytes (49).

   2001, Irwin M. Arias, James L. Boyer, The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology, page 221

   Seven intracellular proteolytic enzymes in this yeast have been described: one aminopeptidase yspI, two endoproteinases named yspA and yspB, one dipeptidyl aminopeptidase yspI, one carboxypeptidase yspI, and two cytosolic proteolytic complexes, the multicorn peptidase and the 26S proteasome.

   2012, Alan J. Barrett, Neil D. Rawlings, J. Fred Woessner, Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, →ISBN, page 1476

2. A fantastic creature similar to a unicorn but having multiple horns in a column along the center of its head.

   I looked like a unicorn—a multicorn.

   2012, Rosemary Wells, Through the Hidden Door, →ISBN

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   His body is a spider with wings of a butterfly, and his head is a multicorn.

   1966, The Emmersons and Portsmouth, 1737-1965

   Long ago there was a man who had a multicorn with which he plowed his land.

   1991, Nora Erro-Peralta, Caridad Silva-Núñez, Beyond the Border: A New Age in Latin American Women's Fiction

   What does the multicorn look like? It looks like Pegasus, but it has got...

   2012, Melanie Williams, Herbert Puchta, Günter Gerngross, Super Minds Level 4 Teacher's Book - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 73

3. mathematicsThe connectedness locus in the space of antiholomorphic unicritical polynomials; The set of parameters for which the Julia set is connected.

   The main results of the article show that the dynamically natural straightening map from a 'baby multicorn', either in multicorns of even degree or in the real cubic locus, to the original multicorn is discontinuous at infinitely many explicit parameters.

   2016, Hiroyuki Inou, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, “Discontinuity of straightening in antiholomorphic dynamics”, in arXiv