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Aspartic Acid

Definition: Aspartic Acid

Aspartic Acid

Noun

1. A crystalline amino acid found in proteins and occurring naturally in sugar beets and sugar cane.

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Specialty Definition: Aspartic Acid

DomainDefinition

Health

One of the non-essential amino acids commonly occurring in the L-form. It is found in animals and plants, especially in sugar cane and sugar beets. It may be a neurotransmitter. (references)

Medicine

C4H7NO4; HO2C. CH2. CH(NH2). CO2H M. p. 271 °C. The naturally occurring substance is L-aspartic acid. One of the acidic-amino-acids is obtained by the hydrolysis of proteins. (1). Source: European Union. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Aspartic acid

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Aspartic acid is one of the 20 most common natural amino acids. As its name indicates, it is acidic, with a carboxylic acid component to its side chain.

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

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Crosswords: Aspartic Acid

English words defined with "aspartic acid": aspartame, Aspartic. (references)
Specialty definitions using "aspartic acid": Argininosuccinate Synthase, Aspartate Ammonia-Lyase, Aspartate Kinase, Aspartate-Ammonia Ligase, Aspartate-tRNA Ligase, Aspartic EndopeptidasesCaspases, ChymopapainExcitatory Amino AcidsHomoserine DehydrogenaseOxaloacetic AcidsRNA, Transfer, Asp. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aspartic Acid

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

aspartic acid

21

l aspartic acid

7
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Modern Translation: Aspartic Acid

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

Danish

  

asparaginsyre (aminosuccinic acid). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

asparaginezuur (aminosuccinic acid). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

aspartiinihappo, asparagiinihappo (aminosuccinic acid). (various references)

   

French

  

acide aspartique, acide asparagique. (various references)

   

German

  

Aspartinsäure, Asparaginsäure (aminosuccinic acid), a-Amino-bernsteinsäure (aminosuccinic acid). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ασπαρτικό οξύ (aminosuccinic acid). (various references)

   

Italian

  

acido aspartico (aminosuccinic acid). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

アスパラギン酸 (aspartame, asphalt, asphalt jungle, aspic, Aspirin, aspirin snow, Aspite). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

アスパラギンさ". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asparticay aciday

   

Portuguese

  

ácido aspartico, ácido aspártico (aminosuccinic acid). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ácido aspártico (aminosuccinic acid). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

asparaginsyra (aminosuccinic acid), aminobärnstensyra (aminosuccinic acid). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Aspartic Acid

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-i-i-p-r-s-t"

-2 letters: paradisaic, paradisiac.

-3 letters: parasitic.

-4 letters: accidias, adscript, apiarist, apractic, arcadias, aspirata, cardiacs, carditic, carditis, dicastic, pasticci, sciatica, triacids, triadics.

-5 letters: acacias, acarids, accidia, acrasia, arcadia, arctics, ascarid, ascidia, ascitic, cardiac, cardias, caritas, cascara, cicadas, critics, diapirs, diarist, dispart, drastic, patacas, picaras, piratic, practic, satiric, sciatic, triacid, triadic.

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Alternative Orthography: Aspartic Acid


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

41 73 70 61 72 74 69 63      41 63 69 64

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

    

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

01000001 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01000001 01100011 01101001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#115 &#112 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#105 &#99 &#32 &#65 &#99 &#105 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0073 0070 0061 0072 0074 0069 0063      0041 0063 0069 0064

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

3585826784867569235697570

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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