decamer

English

Etymology

From deca- +‎ -mer.

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Noun

decamer (plural decamers)

  1. An oligomer having ten subunits.
    Hypernyms: oligomer; molecule; compound
    Hyponyms: heterodecamer, homodecamer
    Coordinate terms: monomer, dimer, trimer, tetramer, pentamer, hexamer, heptamer, septamer, octamer, nonamer; polymer
    • 2015 October 16, “Polyanionic Carboxyethyl Peptide Nucleic Acids ( ce -PNAs): Synthesis and DNA Binding”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      In a recent paper on homopyrimidine decamers containing aeg-monomers and thymine monomers with a sulfomethyl substituent at the γ-position, similar triplexes has also been described [43 ].

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