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- noun organic chemistry The introduction of one or more
amino groups into a compound.
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Examples
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The storyline would make sense how 3D amination is running 2D out of Town.... fidel007
Zemeckis Wants to Use Performance Capture in Roger Rabbit Sequel, But Not For Roger… | /Film 2009
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In the mammalian host this amination does not occur, and allopurinol is not incorporated into nucleic acids (102).
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When he heard that the letter was still available for ex-amination he drew a sigh of relief.
Hercule Poirot's Casebook Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1984
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Content, the minidrag ceased its ex - amination and crawled from chest to shoulder.
For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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Others, more interested in what utilitari - anism accomplished in spite of its pleasure orientation, thrust the latter aside; John Dewey, for example, took the pleasure language to be an historical accident, and the effective ethical thrust to lie in the empirical ex - amination of consequences of actions and policies, for solving the problem-situations to which they were addressed.
HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE ABRAHAM EDEL 1968
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It is for this reason that the critical think - ing of the physicist cannot possibly be restricted to the ex - amination of the concepts of his own specific field.
Out Of My Later Years Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1950
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[(During) 9.3 (the ex) -10.7 (amination of his lordship\222s ancle, Edmund had retired to refresh)] TJ
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families Byron 1807
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It was late in the season before the weather permitted any part of the roof to be stripped for ex - amination, and, when this was done in the centre of the build - ing, all the timbers were found in such a state of decay that no part of them could be suffered to remain in their place.
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I read an account in one of our papers of a [n ex] amination at the University, some time [ago] which was pleasing in the information it gav [e of] the organized state of the institution, and of the torn
Letter from Joseph Caldwell to William R. Davie, August 25, [1796] 1796
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[(The Major found the front of the cell fastened up, but on ex) -11 (amination perceived)] TJ
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