"sliding filament model" meaning in English

See sliding filament model in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: sliding filament models [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sliding filament model (plural sliding filament models)
  1. (biology) A theory relating to a series of actions by the actin and myosin filaments that enable the muscle to undergo contraction. Wikipedia link: sliding filament model Categories (topical): Biology
    Sense id: en-sliding_filament_model-en-noun-k9QuN4Gr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: biology, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for sliding filament model meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sliding filament models",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sliding filament model (plural sliding filament models)",
      "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": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Biology",
          "orig": "en:Biology",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A theory relating to a series of actions by the actin and myosin filaments that enable the muscle to undergo contraction."
      ],
      "id": "en-sliding_filament_model-en-noun-k9QuN4Gr",
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "actin",
          "actin"
        ],
        [
          "myosin",
          "myosin"
        ],
        [
          "muscle",
          "muscle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) A theory relating to a series of actions by the actin and myosin filaments that enable the muscle to undergo contraction."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sliding filament model"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sliding filament model"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sliding filament models",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sliding filament model (plural sliding filament models)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Biology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A theory relating to a series of actions by the actin and myosin filaments that enable the muscle to undergo contraction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "actin",
          "actin"
        ],
        [
          "myosin",
          "myosin"
        ],
        [
          "muscle",
          "muscle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) A theory relating to a series of actions by the actin and myosin filaments that enable the muscle to undergo contraction."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sliding filament model"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sliding filament model"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 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.