racemate

English

Etymology 1

From racemic +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæsɪmeɪt/, /ˈɹeɪsɪmeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Hyphenation: ra‧ce‧mate

Noun

racemate (plural racemates)

1. (chemistry) a racemic mixture
   • 1965, Acta chimica - Volume 44, page 74:

     Тhe greatest racemate contents were found in the products prepared in dimethylformamide and dimethylsulphoxide.

   • 2004, Indra K. Reddy, Reza Mehvar, Chirality in Drug Design and Development, page 424:

     Let us discuss different scenarios that may arise from a racemate consisting of two enantiomers.

2. (chemistry) any salt or ester of racemic acid

Derived terms

• quasiracemate

Translations

racemic mixture

• Finnish: raseeminen seos
• Polish: mieszanina racemiczna f, racemat m
• Spanish: mezcla racémica f

Etymology 2

From race +‎ -mate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪsmeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: race‧mate

Noun

racemate (plural racemates)

1. One racing in the same race.
   • 1977, Richard Lee Hintz, Factors Influencing Racing Performance of the Standardbred Racer, page 28:

     Differences in time at finish, time minus time of winner, and time minus racemate average for various track conditions are given in Tables 15, 16, and 17, respectively.

   • 1981, Virginia Tech Livestock Research Report, page 44:

     Many environmental factors, such as track condition or shape, racing strategy or quality of racemates, modify the expression of true speed by a horse in a race and thereby bias performance records.

   • 1989, EAAP Publication, →ISBN, page 132:

     The interpretation of pace or purse is complicated by the fact that the data reflect not only the performance of the horse but the decisions and behavior of the track officials, the driver, the owner, racemates, etc.

   • 2018, M. Weber, “Rough Start”, in Wild Moments of Sports Car Racing, North Mankato, Minn.: Edge Books, →ISBN, page 15:

     A second three-car pileup happened later on. [Scott] Tucker’s racemate Guy Cosmo avoided the accidents.

2. (rare) One of the same racial group.
   • 1967, Edward V Abner, David W Lewit, “Racial Contact, Personality, and Group Problem Solving”, in Report Resumes‎^[1], ERIC:

     In Figure 1, Negroes and whites alternate around the circle, so that racemates are isolated from one another communicationally. If they communicate, it must be thru a person of the other race.

   • 1994 June 16, “A harmless question”, in alt.skinheads‎^[2] (Usenet):

     if you still lay claim to the achievements your ancestors and racemates carried out, you must also share the guilt for their crimes

   • 1996 May 8, “I hate being called "African-American"”, in soc.culture.african.american‎^[3] (Usenet):

     I'm 'white' and not so proud of it because of what my 'racemates' have done to the Americans and Africans. :-(

   • 2013 August 14, Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Gregory Marston, Work and the Welfare State: Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics (Public Management and Change series)‎^[4], Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 275:

     She finds an organizational environment with limited prospects for responsiveness and meaningful exchange, even where, theoretically, one might have expected racial and ethnic affinity to produce responsiveness between racemates.

Anagrams

• camerate, cream tea, macerate

Latin

Adjective

racēmāte

1. vocative masculine singular of racēmātus