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HETEROCHROMATIN

Specialty Definition: HETEROCHROMATIN

DomainDefinition

Health

The portion of chromosome material that remains condensed and is transcriptionally inactive during interphase. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Heterochromatin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Heterochromatin is a type of chromatin that is gene poor, and usually stains dark in GTG banding.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Heterochromatin."

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Crosswords: HETEROCHROMATIN

Specialty definitions using "HETEROCHROMATIN": DNA, SatelliteEuchromatin. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HETEROCHROMATIN

DomainTitle

Books

  • Heterochromatin : Molecular and Structural Aspects (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: HETEROCHROMATIN

"HETEROCHROMATIN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HETEROCHROMATIN" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HETEROCHROMATIN

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

heterochromatin

2
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Modern Translation: HETEROCHROMATIN

Language Translations for "HETEROCHROMATIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

heterokromatin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

heterochromatine. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

heterokromatiini. (various references)

   

French

  

hétérochromatine. (various references)

   

German

  

Heterochromatin. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ετεροχρωματίνη. (various references)

   

Italian

  

eterocromatina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eterochromatinhay

   

Spanish

  

heterocromatina. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: HETEROCHROMATIN

Derivations

Words beginning with "HETEROCHROMATIN": heterochromatins. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: HETEROCHROMATIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-h-i-m-n-o-o-r-r-t-t"

-4 letters: actinometer, amenorrheic, chronometer, orthocenter, retroaction, theorematic.

-5 letters: charioteer, hematocrit, heteroatom, marionette, meritocrat, nomothetic, recreation, remittance, retraction, tachometer, terminator, tetrameric, trichromat, trochanter.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-h-i-m-n-o-o-r-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: heterochromatins.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HETEROCHROMATIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 45 54 45 52 4F 43 48 52 4F 4D 41 54 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000101 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001111 01000011 01001000 01010010 01001111 01001101 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#79 &#67 &#72 &#82 &#79 &#77 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0054 0045 0052 004F 0043 0048 0052 004F 004D 0041 0054 0049 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

423954395249374252494735544348

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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