multicorn

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Etymology edit

multi- +‎ corn

Noun edit

multicorn (plural multicorns)

(biochemistry) A type of protease.
- 2001, Irwin M. Arias, James L. Boyer, The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology, page 221:
  The tricorn protease was first identified in thermophilic bacteria, but a related larger protease called multicorn exists in mammalian cells including hepatocytes (49).
- 2012, Peter Zwickl, Wolfgang Baumeister, The Proteasome — Ubiquitin Protein Degradation Pathway, →ISBN, page 48:
  Candidates for these downstream proteases are THIMET, tricorn, multicorn, TPPII, and leucine aminopeptidase.
- 2012, Alan J. Barrett, Neil D. Rawlings, J. Fred Woessner, Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes, →ISBN, page 1476:
  Seven intracellular proteolytic enzymes in this yeast have been described: one aminopeptidase yspI, two endoproteinases named yspA and yspB, one dipeptidyl aminopeptidase yspI, one carboxypeptidase yspI, and two cytosolic proteolytic complexes, the multicorn peptidase and the 26S proteasome.
A fantastic creature similar to a unicorn but having multiple horns in a column along the center of its head.
- 1966, The Emmersons and Portsmouth, 1737-1965:
  His body is a spider with wings of a butterfly, and his head is a multicorn.
- 1991, Nora Erro-Peralta, Caridad Silva-Núñez, Beyond the Border: A New Age in Latin American Women's Fiction:
  Long ago there was a man who had a multicorn with which he plowed his land.
- 2012, Rosemary Wells, Through the Hidden Door, →ISBN:
  I looked like a unicorn—a multicorn.
- 2012, Melanie Williams, Herbert Puchta, Günter Gerngross, Super Minds Level 4 Teacher's Book - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 73:
  What does the multicorn look like? It looks like Pegasus, but it has got...
(mathematics) The connectedness locus in the space of antiholomorphic unicritical polynomials; The set of parameters for which the Julia set is connected.
- 2016, Hiroyuki Inou, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, “Discontinuity of straightening in antiholomorphic dynamics”, in arXiv‎^[1]:
  The main results of the article show that the dynamically natural straightening map from a 'baby multicorn', either in multicorns of even degree or in the real cubic locus, to the original multicorn is discontinuous at infinitely many explicit parameters.