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Definition: Catalase |
CatalaseNoun1. Enzyme found in most plant and animal cells that functions as an oxidative catalyst; decomposes hydrogen peroxide into hydrogen and water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "catalase" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | An oxidoreductase that catalyzes the conversion of hydrogen peroxide to water and oxygen. It is present in many animal cells. A deficiency of this enzyme results in acatalasia. EC 1.11.1.6. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Catalase |
| English words defined with "catalase": catalatic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "catalase": Acatalasia, Amitrole. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Enzymes like superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase can disarm the damaging oxygen molecules. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Catalase" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Catalase" is used about 16 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) | 93.75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
catalase | 51 |
catalase test | 9 |
enzyme catalase | 7 |
alcohol catalase | 2 |
catalase peroxide skin | 2 |
catalase experiment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "catalase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | katalase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | catalase, katalase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | katalaasi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | catalase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Katalase. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ομάδες της πορφυρίνης βρίσκονται στις αιμοσφαιρίνες,μυοσφαιρίνες,στην καταλάση και στις υπεροξειδάσες,στα κυτοχρώματα,στη χλωροφύλη και (in catalase and peroxydases). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kataláz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | catalasi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atalasecay catalase. (various references) catalasa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "catalase": catalases. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: acetals, lactase. | |
-2 letters: acetal, alates, calesa, castle, cleats, eclats. | |
-3 letters: aceta, alate, alecs, atlas, caste, cates, celts, cesta, clast, cleat, eclat, laces, least, scale, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taces, taels, talas, talcs, tales, teals, tesla. | |
-4 letters: aals, aces, acta, acts, alae, alas, alec, ales, alts, asea, ates, casa, case, cast, cate, cats, cels. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-e-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: catalases. | |
+2 letters: cabalettas. | |
+3 letters: catafalques, metacarpals, sacramental. | |
+4 letters: abstractable, acatalectics, cardinalates, galactosemia, osteomalacia, oxalacetates, sacramentals. | |
+5 letters: analphabetics, ascertainable, autocatalyses, charlatanries, extravascular, fanaticalness, galactorrheas, galactosamine, galactosemias, galactosidase, osteomalacias, oxaloacetates, sacramentally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 74 61 6C 61 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- - .- .-.. .- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110100 01100001 01101100 01100001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a t a l a s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0074 0061 006C 0061 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767866778678571 |
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