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TANDEM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bicycle with two sets of pedals and two seats
Synonyms:
bicycle-built-for-two; tandem; tandem bicycle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tandem" is a kind of...):
bicycle; bike; cycle; wheel (a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("tandem" is a kind of...):
arrangement; placement (the spatial property of the way in which something is placed)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One behind the other
Example:
riding horses down the path in tandem
Synonyms:
in tandem; tandem
Classified under:
Context examples:
The Prince drove to Carlton House with a three tandem in four hours and a half.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A variety of simple di- , tri- , tetra-, and pentanucleotide tandem repeats that are dispersed in the euchromatic arms of most chromosomes.
(Microsatellite Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)
A fusion gene that results from a tandem duplication of approximately 2 Mb at 7q34 which fuses exon 15 or 16 of the KIAA1549 gene to exon 9 or 11 of the BRAF gene.
(KIAA1549/BRAF Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Tandem duplication of about 2 Mb at chromosome 7q34 that fuses this gene and the BRAF gene is associated with pilocytic astrocytoma.
(KIAA1549 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
A tandem duplication that fuses this gene and the ALK gene may be associated with colorectal cancer.
(C2orf44 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Tandem repeats characterize the core mucin protein, apomucin; variation of the protein derives from variation in the number of expressed repeats.
(Mucin Peptide MUC-1, NCI Thesaurus)
A transgenic mouse at F1 generation with background strain C57BL/6 crossed with BALB/cAn, containing three copies of the human c-Ha-Ras gene introduced in tandem.
(CB6F1-TgN (RasH2), NCI Thesaurus)
OVIRS will work in tandem with another OSIRIS-REx instrument — the Thermal Emission Spectrometer, or OTES.
(NASA to Map the Surface of an Asteroid, NASA)
Hypo-glycosylation exposes the normally cryptic tandem peptide repeats in cancer-associated mucin, thereby allows antigen-antibody interaction with MUC-1 antibody.
(Anti-MUC-1 Monoclonal Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)
Ankyrin Repeats are tandem modules of about 33 amino acids.
(Ankyrin Repeat, NCI Thesaurus)
