Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Nucleated.
- intransitive verb To bring together into a nucleus.
- intransitive verb To act as a nucleus for.
- intransitive verb To provide a nucleus for.
- intransitive verb To form a nucleus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a nucleus: as, a nucleate cell; nucleate protoplasm.
- To form into or about a nucleus.
- To form a nucleus; gather about a nucleus or center.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To form into a nucleus or multiple nuclei.
- adjective Having a nucleus; nucleated.
- transitive verb To gather, as about a nucleus or center.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
nucleus ;nucleated - verb To form (into) a nucleus, or to act as a nucleus
- noun Any
salt of anucleic acid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus
- verb form into a nucleus
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Examples
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The researchers used an instrument called a transmission electron microscope to watch how nanowires made of silicon "nucleate," or begin to form, before growing into wires, said Eric Stach, an assistant professor of materials engineering at Purdue University.
Lockergnome 2008
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The researchers used an instrument called a transmission electron microscope to watch how nanowires made of silicon "nucleate," or begin to form, before growing into wires, said Eric Stach, an assistant professor of materials engineering at Purdue University.
Lockergnome 2008
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The researchers used an instrument called a transmission electron microscope to watch how nanowires made of silicon "nucleate," or begin to form, before growing into wires, said Eric Stach, an assistant professor of materials engineering at Purdue University.
Lockergnome 2008
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The researchers used an instrument called a transmission electron microscope to watch how nanowires made of silicon "nucleate," or begin to form, before growing into wires, said Eric Stach, an assistant professor of materials engineering at Purdue University.
Lockergnome 2008
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The researchers used an instrument called a transmission electron microscope to watch how nanowires made of silicon "nucleate," or begin to form, before growing into wires, said Eric Stach, an assistant professor of materials engineering at Purdue University.
Lockergnome 2008
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The researchers used an instrument called a transmission electron microscope to watch how nanowires made of silicon "nucleate," or begin to form, before growing into wires, said Eric Stach, an assistant professor of materials engineering at Purdue University.
Lockergnome 2008
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The researchers used an instrument called a transmission electron microscope to watch how nanowires made of silicon "nucleate," or begin to form, before growing into wires, said Eric Stach, an assistant professor of materials engineering at Purdue University.
innovations-report 2008
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Sever the ties that bind the nonsmokers of Framingham or worse, nucleate a large social network with a proselytizing smoker, and then, cataclysmically, the network might alter as a whole.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Well, when the tunneling takes place, a small, microscopic bubble would nucleate somewhere in our universe.
False Vacua I: The End of the Universe As We Know it « Imaginary Potential 2008
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Sever the ties that bind the nonsmokers of Framingham or worse, nucleate a large social network with a proselytizing smoker, and then, cataclysmically, the network might alter as a whole.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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