noun
definition
A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two identical molecules, sometimes with a single atom acting as a bridge.
Examples of dimers in a Sentence
Well actually we have two dimers in close proximity.
The bright features are mostly clean rotated epitaxial dimers.
This will mean that the clean dimers in the vicinity are not pinned.
The predictions are compared with the behavior of real liquid crystal dimers.
The unit cell used was two dimer rows wide, each of which was four dimer rows wide, each of which was four dimers long, with the usual termination.
They may have a role in dissociation of tubulin dimers.
Pairs of neighboring atoms on the surface bind to each other to make silicon dimers.
Silke says, " why are insulin dimers and hexamers biologically important, since insulin is dilute in blood?
This surface coat is a monolayer of five million variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) dimers that form a macromolecular diffusion barrier.
The similarity of action spectra for thymine dimers in human epidermis and erythema suggests that DNA is the chromophore for erythema.
Peptides encompassing the EBNA 3C zipper domain are approximately 54 to 67% alpha-helical in solution but cannot form dimers at physiologically relevant concentrations.