trimer

See also: trímer

English

Etymology

tri- +‎ -mer

Noun

trimer (plural trimers)

1. (chemistry) A polymer composed of three monomers

Related terms

• heterotrimer
• homotrimer
• trimeric
• trimerous
• trimery

Translations

molecule

• Catalan: trímer m
• Italian: trimero (it) m
• Romanian: trimer m
• Spanish: trímero (es) m

See also

• monomer
• dimer
• tetramer
• oligomer
• polymer

Anagrams

• retrim

French

Etymology

Uncertain, possibly alteration of Old French trumer (“to run”), early 18th c.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.me/

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Verb

trimer

1. (colloquial) to slave away (to work very hard)

   J’ai trimé toute la journée.

   I have been slaving away all day.

2. (dated) to walk for a long time; to tramp

Conjugation

Conjugation of trimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trimer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trimant /tʁi.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trimé /tʁi.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trime /tʁim/	trimes /tʁim/	trime /tʁim/	trimons /tʁi.mɔ̃/	trimez /tʁi.me/	triment /tʁim/
	imperfect	trimais /tʁi.mɛ/	trimais /tʁi.mɛ/	trimait /tʁi.mɛ/	trimions /tʁi.mjɔ̃/	trimiez /tʁi.mje/	trimaient /tʁi.mɛ/
	past historic2	trimai /tʁi.me/	trimas /tʁi.ma/	trima /tʁi.ma/	trimâmes /tʁi.mam/	trimâtes /tʁi.mat/	trimèrent /tʁi.mɛʁ/
	future	trimerai /tʁim.ʁe/	trimeras /tʁim.ʁa/	trimera /tʁim.ʁa/	trimerons /tʁim.ʁɔ̃/	trimerez /tʁim.ʁe/	trimeront /tʁim.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trimerais /tʁim.ʁɛ/	trimerais /tʁim.ʁɛ/	trimerait /tʁim.ʁɛ/	trimerions /tʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	trimeriez /tʁi.mə.ʁje/	trimeraient /tʁim.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	trime /tʁim/	trimes /tʁim/	trime /tʁim/	trimions /tʁi.mjɔ̃/	trimiez /tʁi.mje/	triment /tʁim/
	imperfect2	trimasse /tʁi.mas/	trimasses /tʁi.mas/	trimât /tʁi.ma/	trimassions /tʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/	trimassiez /tʁi.ma.sje/	trimassent /tʁi.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trime /tʁim/	—	trimons /tʁi.mɔ̃/	trimez /tʁi.me/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “trimer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.