Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Consisting of or having two cycles.
- adjective Botany Composed of or arranged in two distinct whorls, as the petals of a flower.
- adjective Chemistry Relating to or being a molecule containing two rings, either by a fused or bridged arrangement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of or having two circles; specifically, in botany, in two whorls, as the stamens of a flower.
- Relating to or connected with bicycles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to bicycles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having two
cycles . - adjective chemistry Having two
rings ofatoms in themolecule ; the rings may befused , as innaphthalene , orseparate , as inbiphenyl . - noun chemistry A bicyclic
compound .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having molecules consisting of two fused rings
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Examples
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In this case the monoid is called the bicyclic monoid and we can implement it as follows:
Planet Haskell 2009
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These are described as bicyclic (due to their structure) polyketide lactones and identified as polyrhacitides A (1) and B (2).
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In the main, these are bicyclic and tricyclic sesquiterpenes-hydrocarbons, alcohols, and carboxylic acids.
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The Camomila extract also contains a bicyclic acetylenic ether which causes some toxicity as a result of its spasmolitic properties.
Chapter 12 1991
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The resins are nonvolatile mixtures of bicyclic terpene acids, esters, and related structures that are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents.
Chapter 10 1990
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This work, carried out between 1882 and 1906 showed that various substances, little known at that time, such as adenine, xanthine, in vegetable substances, caffeine and, in animal excrete, uric acid and guanine, all belonged to one homogeneous family and could be derived from one another and that they corresponded to different hydroxyl and amino derivatives of the same fundamental system formed by a bicyclic nitrogenous structure into which the characteristic urea group entered.
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One of the technologies that has enabled this profile are the bicyclic nucleic acid chemistries such as locked nucleic acids LNAs.
Forbes.com: News Bruce Booth 2011
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As the first of its kind, it derisks the concept of miR-targeting and the bicyclic chemistry as well.
Forbes.com: News Bruce Booth 2011
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Here we report the mode of action of theonellamides, bicyclic peptides derived from marine sponges.
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Ingestion of a dted 25 cialis imperial levitra libidus viagra yohimbe dose of bicyclic estomago bioengineer has infarcted ping of the mouth, esophagus, and stomach; nausea; sweating; and light-headedness.
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