CROSS-LINKING

Date "CROSS-LINKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Domain	Definition
Chemistry	Correction of parallel chains in a complex chemical molecule (as a polymer). Source: European Union. (references)
Chemistry	The establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers. It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization, and electron bombardment. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: CROSS-LINKING

Synonyms by domain: cross linking (chemical industry, industry), crosslinking (chemical industry, meteorology & standards), netlinking (computing).

Domain	Title
Books	Chemistry of Protein Conjugation and Cross-Linking (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In animals, this drug blocks cross-linking of proteins that occurs more quickly than normal in tissues exposed to high levels of glucose. (references)
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"CROSS-LINKING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "CROSS-LINKING" is used about 8 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)	50%	4	175,879
Adjective (general or positive)	50%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

Expression using "CROSS-LINKING": Cross-Linking Reagents. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "CROSS-LINKING": uv-cross-linking.
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Language		Translations for "CROSS-LINKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		tvaerbinding (cross linking), brodannelse (and electron bombardment, bridging, bridging of hole, doming, the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization). (various references)

Dutch		kruisverbinding (and electron bombardment, distributor, the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization), dwarsbinding. (various references)

Finnish		silloitus (and electron bombardment, tacking of edges, the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization), ristiliittyminen (and electron bombardment, the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization). (various references)

French		rétification, réticulation (cross linking, crosslinking), montage en pont. (various references)

German		Vernetzung (cross linking, interlacing, internetworking, network), Brückenbildung (and electron bombardment, bridge, bridging, doming, the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization). (various references)

Greek		τιθάσευση, δικτύωση (reticulating). (various references)

Italian		reticolazione (cross linking, cross-link), formazione di legame (and electron bombardment, the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		架橋 (bridge building), 架け橋 (bridge building), 橋架け (bridge building), 橋かけ (bridge building). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かきょう (bridge building, climax, mood of a poem, one's homeland, one's old home, overseas Chinese merchants, poet's mood when writing, tutor), かけはし (bridge building, go-between, mediation, suspension bridge, temporary bridge, viaduct), はしかけ (bridge building). (various references)

Pig Latin		oss-linkingcray

Portuguese		rectificação (correction, flatting, hone, rectification, shaving, transformation), ligação cruzada (and electron bombardment, the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization). (various references)

Spanish		reticulación (reticulation), enlace cruzado (and electron bombardment, the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization). (various references)

Swedish		tvärbindning (and electron bombardment, the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization), förnätning (and electron bombardment, the establishing of chemical links between the molecular chains in polymers.It can be accomplished by chemical reaction, vulcanization). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-k-l-n-n-o-r-s-s"
	-2 letters: incrossing.
	-3 letters: crinkling, inclosing, nigrosins, noncrisis, rocklings, skiorings.
	-4 letters: clinking, clonings, clonking, closings, consigns, crossing, griskins, incisors, inklings, ironings, lickings, ligroins, nickling, nigrosin, oilskins, rinsings, rockling, rosining, scorning, sickling, signiors, silicons, sirloins, skioring, skirling, slicking, slinking, snicking.
	-5 letters: cloning, closing, coiling, coining, conking, consign, corking, corning, cosigns, griskin, grisons, incisor, incross, inkling, ironing, kilning.
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CROSS-LINKING

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