Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a nucleus or nuclei.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
nucleate . - In phys., in a state of nucleation: said of a vapor, portions of which have condensed in the form of minute globules about suspended nuclei.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a nucleus; nucleate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
nucleate . - adjective Having a
nucleus ornuclei .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a nucleus or occurring in the nucleus
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Examples
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Identification and characterization of the cell defect further corroborated our earlier general hypothesis that ubiquitination signals proteins for degradation, and that it also occurs in nucleated cells, a finding we had already demonstrated in Haifa, albeit indirectly
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At Stanford my students and I have continued work on superfluid and solid 3He, studying how the B superfluid phase is nucleated from the higher temperature A phase and diverse properties of magnetically ordered solid 3He in two and three dimensions.
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To be extra "nucleated", we could deposit all the Chinese-made children's toys at ground zero, thus doubling our effectiveness.
Progressive Bloggers The Skwib 2009
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This nucleated cell was apparently the progenitor of all "higher" forms of life, including plants and animals.
James A. Shapiro: What Is the Key to a Realistic Theory of Evolution? James A. Shapiro 2012
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This nucleated cell was apparently the progenitor of all "higher" forms of life, including plants and animals.
James A. Shapiro: What Is the Key to a Realistic Theory of Evolution? James A. Shapiro 2012
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This is a good example of a nucleated dwarf galaxy.
Latest from Hubble: Star Formation Fizzling Out in Nearby Galaxy | Universe Today 2010
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Tiny, ancient single-nucleated life at the bottom, scaling toward complex warm-blooded air breathers at the top.
I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010
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It took a further billion years for these organisms to evolve nucleated, organelle containing cells - to become amoebae if you like.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Striated muscle tissue consists of bundles of fibers called fasiculi made up of long nucleated cells with myofibrils in alternating dark and light bands that give them a striped appearance.
Muscles Part 1 2008
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This is a multi-nucleated algae cell, probably of the species Valonia.
Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? Doctor Science 2008
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