"microarray" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: microarrays [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós) Ancient Greek μῑκρο- (mīkro-)lbor. English micro- English array English microarray From micro- + array. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|micro-<id:very small>|array|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós) Ancient Greek μῑκρο- (mīkro-)lbor. English micro- English array English microarray [Appendix:Glossary#learned_borrowing|Learned borrowing]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "small", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "is_uncertain" : true, "id" : "small", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*mey-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "μῑκρός", "gloss" : "small", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "μῑκρο-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "lbor" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "micro-", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "array", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "microarray", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="microarray"> From micro- + array., {{ety|en|:af|micro-<id:very small>|array|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós) Ancient Greek μῑκρο- (mīkro-)lbor. English micro- English array English microarray From micro- + array. Head templates: {{en-noun}} microarray (plural microarrays)
  1. Any of several devices, containing a two-dimensional array of small quantities of biological material, used for various types of assay; the assay itself Derived forms: antibody microarray, cell microarray, chemical compound microarray, DNA microarray, intermicroarray, microarrayed, microarrayer, oligomicroarray, protein microarray, tissue microarray Related terms: glycoarray Translations (two-dimensional array of small quantities of biological material): 微陣列 /微阵列 (Chinese Mandarin), mikroruudukko (Finnish), koetinsiru (Finnish), micromatrice (French), microréseau (French), μικροσυστοιχία (mikrosystoichía) [feminine] (Greek), matrice ad alta densità (Italian), micromatrice (Italian), microarray [masculine] (Portuguese), micromatriz [feminine] (Portuguese), microarranjo [masculine] (Portuguese), micromatriz (Spanish), microarreglo (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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