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  • noun Plural form of dimer.

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Examples

  • That may well operate via quantum weirdness as well, at least per the Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR model of consciousness – where tubulin dimers in the microtubules of centrioles and cytoskeleton perform quantum computational information processing by configurational state-switching.

    Coordinated Evolution 2007

  • And guess what, the tubulin dimers that make up the microtubules are small enough to be influenced by quantum level effects.

    Coordinated Evolution 2007

  • * dimers is looking for work in the Boston area (T or bus-accessible from Davis Square).

    How can we help? gothwalk 2009

  • Constraining the interactions by anchoring some of the particles on a surface allowed the scientists to reliably form a variety of structures from two-particle clusters (called dimers) to more complex 3-D nanoparticle crystals.

    Medgadget 2009

  • Constraining the interactions by anchoring some of the particles on a surface allowed the scientists to reliably form a variety of structures from two-particle clusters (called dimers) to more complex 3-D nanoparticle crystals.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • Constraining the interactions by anchoring some of the particles on a surface allowed the scientists to reliably form a variety of structures from two-particle clusters (called dimers) to more complex 3-D nanoparticle crystals.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • In 1982 Stuart Hameroff, along with R.C. Watt, presented a paper titled Information Processing in Microtubules where they laid out how the tubulin dimers that make up microtubules can act like on/off bits in a computer.

    Damn Duck 2008

  • I realize that each episode takes nine months to make, but there were more noteworthy nickel and dimers and exploiters of children in the news in the last twenty-odd years.

    Catie Lazarus: TV Review: The Cleveland Show 2009

  • The similarity of action spectra for thymine dimers in human epidermis and erythema suggests that DNA is the chromophore for erythema.

    Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009

  • “Histone dimers: a fundamental unit in histone assembly.”

    Ruth Sperling. 2009

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