Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coming together; an assembly; a company.
- noun Sexual intercourse.
- noun A bringing together for the purpose of comparison.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of coming together;
congress - noun genetics The
movement of to thespindle equator duringmitosis
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Examples
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Are you following the congression discussions that involve 500+ congressional representatives -- not a "single person"?
Texas Faith: Is health care a moral imperative? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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I represent the Texas second congression -- (blowing bubbles in hot tub) --
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They won't happen unless the Republican choke on congression inquiry is removed, hopefully next week.
Printing: Carl Strock, Another Bush "Brownie" Heading Construction in Iraq and Afghanistan 2006
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They won't happen unless the Republican choke on congression inquiry is removed, hopefully next week.
Carl Strock, Another Bush "Brownie" Heading Construction in Iraq and Afghanistan 2006
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The chromokinesin Kid is necessary for chromosome arm orientation and oscillation, but not congression, on mitotic spindles
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This force increases the efficiency with which chromosomes make bipolar spindle attachments and regulates kinetochore activities necessary for chromosome oscillation, but is not essential for chromosome congression.
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However, injected cells lack chromosome oscillations, and chromosome orientation is atypical because chromosome arms extend toward spindle poles during both congression and metaphase.
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Chromokinesins have been postulated to provide the polar ejection force needed for chromosome congression during mitosis.
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MR. MCCURRY: To further the congression -- the resolution that many of them supported, which is to adopt a war policy towards Bosnia instead of a peace policy by lifting the arms embargo.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1995
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Bacher CP, Daigle N, Hand AR, Eils R, et al. (2005) A contractile nuclear actin network drives chromosome congression in oocytes.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Vincent Gache et al. 2010
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