Trans

Quick meaning: Trans is an adjective meaning (cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.

Meaning

(cytology) Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.

More Meanings

1. Transgender or transsexual.
2. (informal, sometimes offensive or humorous) A trans person.
3. (transitive, social sciences or humorous) To cause to cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or similar).
4. (transitive, Internet slang, offensive or humorous) To render (someone) transgender.
5. (physical chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.
6. (physical chemistry) In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are on opposite sides of the central atom.

Example Sentences

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[…] as they interact with bodies transing gender (and other) borders and spaces.

The trans effect is the labilization of ligands which are trans to certain other ligands.

Good thing about Thanksgiving with the transes is you don;t need to explain your need to dialate in the middle of a movie. ; ) Dana a#344.

Word Forms

• transes
• transing
• transed

Antonyms for trans

Common opposites include cis.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crosswise, isomerism, isomerization, isomerisation, photoisomerization, isomerase.

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