"SNA" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: SNAs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} SNA (plural SNAs)
  1. (biochemistry) Initialism of spherical nucleic acid. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: spherical nucleic acid Categories (topical): Biochemistry Related terms (spherical nucleic acid): DNA (english: deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (english: ribonucleic acid), TNA (english: threonucleic acid), GNA (english: glycol nucleic acid), PNA (english: peptide nucleic acid), XNA (english: xeno-nucleic acid)
    Sense id: en-SNA-en-noun-ryt7jGDn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 63 37 Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences Disambiguation of 'spherical nucleic acid': 87 13
  2. (Ireland, education) Initialism of special needs assistant. Tags: Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: special needs assistant Categories (topical): Education
    Sense id: en-SNA-en-noun-DEXrU1j5 Categories (other): Irish English Topics: education

Inflected forms

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          "english": "threonucleic acid",
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          "english": "glycol nucleic acid",
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          "english": "peptide nucleic acid",
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