preculture
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A preliminary culture; a culture prepared in advance of the main experiment
verb
To culture in advance, such as before the main phase of an experiment
Example Sentences
- "Second, some of the precultures used by Iglesias-Rodriguez et al., particularly those in high-CO₂ treatments, may have experienced nutrient limitation at the time of transfer to the experimental flasks."
- "For fresh, nonfrozen hepatocytes precultured for 24 h prior to being plated on collagen, the albumin secretion rate was 0.88 ± 0.62 mg/ml/h."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture English preculture From pre- + culture.