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Definition: Cross-link |
Cross-linkNoun1. A side bond that links two adjacent chains of atoms in a complex molecule. Verb1. Join by creating covalent bonds (of adjacent chains of a polymer or protein). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Cross-linkSynonym: cross-linkage (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cross-link |
| Specialty definitions using "cross-link": Superantigens. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | South Africa | Recent highlights of US business in South Africa include Boeing aircraft sales to the national carrier and the Office of the President, the IBM world-first technology cross-link with ABSA Bank, and the mobile telephone provider Cell C (making use of US GTE technology) receiving the third cellular telephone license. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cross-link" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Cross-link" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "cross-link"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | cross-linken, vernetten, verknopen, een netwerk vormen. (various references) | ||||
French | se reticuler, reticuler, ponter. (various references) | ||||
German | vernetzen (integrate, link up, net, network), verketten (catenate, chain, chain up, chaine, concatenate, link, to catenate, to chain, to chain up, to concatenate), sich vernetzen. (various references) | ||||
Italian | reticolazione (cross linking, cross-linking). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oss-linkcray | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-k-l-n-o-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: incross. | |
-3 letters: clinks, clonks, colins, nicols, orcins, rosins, scions, scorns, sickos, skirls, slicks, slinks, snicks, sonics. | |
-4 letters: cions, clink, clonk, clons, coils, coins, coirs, colin, conks, corks, corns, cross, icons, ikons, irons, kilns, kilos, kinos, kirns, licks, links, linos, lions, locks, loins, loris, nicks, nicol, nocks, noils, noirs, noris, oinks, orcin, ornis, ricks. | |
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