See alpha helix in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for alpha helix meaning in English (3.1kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "alpha helices",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "alpha helixes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "alpha helices",
"2": "+"
},
"expansion": "alpha helix (plural alpha helices or alpha helixes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Biochemistry",
"orig": "en:Biochemistry",
"parents": [
"Biology",
"Chemistry",
"Sciences",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "alphahelical"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A secondary structure found in many proteins, in which the amino acids are arranged in a coil, or helix, with almost no free space on the inside and all side chains being pointed towards the outside"
],
"id": "en-alpha_helix-en-noun-nKdnfG~n",
"links": [
[
"secondary structure",
"secondary structure"
],
[
"protein",
"protein"
],
[
"amino acid",
"amino acid"
],
[
"helix",
"helix"
],
[
"inside",
"inside"
],
[
"side chain",
"side chain"
],
[
"outside",
"outside"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hèlix alfa"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "alpha luóxuán",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"word": "α螺旋"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"word": "alfa-kierre"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "álfa élika",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "άλφα έλικα"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alfa-héilics"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alfa-elica"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alfa-hélice"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hélice alfa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "álʹfa-spirálʹ",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "а́льфа-спира́ль"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alfa uzvojnica"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hélice alfa"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"alpha helix"
]
}
],
"word": "alpha helix"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "alphahelical"
}
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "alpha helices",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "alpha helixes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "alpha helices",
"2": "+"
},
"expansion": "alpha helix (plural alpha helices or alpha helixes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"en:Biochemistry"
],
"glosses": [
"A secondary structure found in many proteins, in which the amino acids are arranged in a coil, or helix, with almost no free space on the inside and all side chains being pointed towards the outside"
],
"links": [
[
"secondary structure",
"secondary structure"
],
[
"protein",
"protein"
],
[
"amino acid",
"amino acid"
],
[
"helix",
"helix"
],
[
"inside",
"inside"
],
[
"side chain",
"side chain"
],
[
"outside",
"outside"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"alpha helix"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hèlix alfa"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "alpha luóxuán",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"word": "α螺旋"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"word": "alfa-kierre"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "álfa élika",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "άλφα έλικα"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alfa-héilics"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alfa-elica"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alfa-hélice"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hélice alfa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "álʹfa-spirálʹ",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "а́льфа-спира́ль"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alfa uzvojnica"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "secondary structure found in many proteins",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hélice alfa"
}
],
"word": "alpha helix"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.