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CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("crystallography" is a kind of...):
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
Domain member category:
monoclinic (having three unequal crystal axes with one oblique intersection)
anorthic; triclinic (having three unequal crystal axes intersecting at oblique angles)
isometric (of a crystal system characterized by three equal axes at right angles)
rhombohedral; trigonal (having threefold symmetry)
bladed (composed of thin flat plates resembling a knife blade)
Context examples:
A new study by chemists at the University of Arkansas shows that X-ray crystallography, the standard method for determining the structure of proteins, may provide inaccurate information about a critical set of proteins — those found in cell membranes — which in turn could be leading to poor and inefficient drug design.
(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)
Moradi and his team have addressed the problem of relying on X-ray crystallography by using a supercomputer at the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center to run continuous, microsecond-level computations simulating the molecular dynamics of membrane proteins.
(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)
