dendryt

Polish

dendryt sense 1
dendryty sense 2
dendryt sense 3

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English dendrite, French dendrite, German Dendrit, ultimately from Ancient Greek δενδρίτης (dendrítēs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɛn.drɘt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛndrɘt
  • Syllabification: den‧dryt

Noun

dendryt m inan (related adjective dendrytyczny or dendrytowy)

  1. (neuroanatomy) dendrite, dendron (slender projection of a nerve cell which conducts nerve impulses from a synapse to the body of the cell)
  2. (crystallography, metallurgy) dendrite (tree-like structure of crystals growing as material crystallizes)
  3. (graph theory) tree (connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges)
    Synonym: drzewo

Declension

Further reading

  • dendryt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • dendryt in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • dendryt in PWN's encyclopedia