racemation

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noun

A cluster or bunch, as of grapes. Also used figuratively.

“racemation of amino acids”

OriginLatin racematio →
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Meanings

nounracemation (usually uncountable, plural racemations)

plural racemations

  1. uncountableusuallyA cluster or bunch, as of grapes. Also used figuratively.

    Since also a Cock will in one day fertilitate the whole racemation or cluster of egges, which are not excluded in many weeks after.

    1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
  2. uncountableusuallyThe cultivation or gathering of clusters of grapes.
  3. archaicuncountableusuallybiochemistryThe formation of a racemate from a pure enantiomer; racemization.

    racemation of amino acids

Origin

  1. Latinracematio“a gleaning”
  2. Englishracemation

From Latin racematio (“a gleaning”), from racemari (“to glean”), racemus (“a cluster of grapes”). See raceme.

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