nucleate
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nucleate (comparative more nucleate, superlative most nucleate)
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nucleate (third-person singular simple present nucleates, present participle nucleating, simple past and past participle nucleated)
- To form (into) a nucleus, or to act as a nucleus.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 113:
- Lasker was the center of this collective, its nucleating force, its queen bee.
Noun edit
nucleate (plural nucleates)
- Any salt of a nucleic acid.
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nucleate
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Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /nu.kleˈaː.te/, [nʊkɫ̪eˈäːt̪ɛ] or IPA(key): /nuk.leˈaː.te/, [nʊkɫ̪eˈäːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /nu.kleˈa.te/, [nukleˈäːt̪e] or IPA(key): /nuk.leˈa.te/, [nukleˈäːt̪e]
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nucleāte
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nucleate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of nuclear combined with te