Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

monomeric

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English

Syllables: monomer-ic
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to a monomer.

adj

Describing a protein that has a single polypeptide chain.

adj

Describing a hereditary characteristic controlled by a gene at a single locus.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men-der. Proto-Hellenic *mónwos Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *(s)méros Proto-Hellenic *(h)méros Ancient Greek μέρος (méros)lbor. English -mer English monomer Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English monomeric From monomer + -ic.

Derived Forms

heteromonomeric homomonomeric intermonomeric intramonomeric monomerically monomericity multimonomeric nonmonomeric submonomeric

Antonyms

multimeric polymeric

Questions

What does monomeric mean?: Of or pertaining to a monomer.
Where does monomeric come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *men-der. Proto-Hellenic *mónwos Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der. English mono- Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *(s)méros Proto-Hellenic *(h)méros Ancient Greek μέρος (méros)lbor. English -mer English monomer Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English monomeric From monomer + -ic.

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