Tactoid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tactoid is a noun meaning (physics) An elongated liquid crystal microdomain.
Meaning
(physics) An elongated liquid crystal microdomain.
More Meanings
- (biology) An elongated particle, particularly a cell
Example Sentences
Minute quantities of chiral molecules such as amino acid L-alanine and limonene transform the racemic array of left- and right-twisted tactoids into a homochiral set.
Because immunotactoids may be composed of either immune complexes or monoclonal proteins, which are capable of forming tactoids or microtubules, the variability in the size and the orientation of the tactoids from one patient to another may be a result of concentration or biochemical composition of the protein similar to that described in cryoglobulinemia.
Word Forms
- tactoids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include macrodomain, microtoroid, microtexture, microfluidity, microdoublet, nanofluid.
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