Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

electrophorese

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: elec-trophorese
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To carry out electrophoresis on something.

Example Sentences

"The approach taken is to electrophorese the RNA sample on an agarose gel under denaturing conditions."

Etymology

Back-formation from electrophoresis.

Inflected Forms

electrophoreses (present, singular) electrophoresing (participle, present) electrophoresed (participle, past) electrophoresed (past)

Questions

What does electrophorese mean?: To carry out electrophoresis on something.
Where does electrophorese come from?: Back-formation from electrophoresis.

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