Dimer may refer to:
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Dimer (chemistry)
In chemistry, dimerization is the process of joining two identical or similar Molecular entity, molecular entities by Chemical bond, bonds. The resulting bonds can be either strong or weak. Many symmetrical chemical species are described as dim ...
, a chemical structure formed from two similar sub-units
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Protein dimer
In biochemistry, a protein dimer is a macromolecular complex or protein multimer, multimer formed by two protein monomers, or single proteins, which are usually Non-covalent interaction, non-covalently bound. Many macromolecules, such as proteins ...
, a protein quaternary structure
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d-dimer
D-dimer (or D dimer) is a dimer that is a fibrin degradation product (FDP), a small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis. It is so named because it contains two D fragments of the fibrin protein ...
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TH-dimer
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Dimer model
In geometry, a domino tiling of a region in the Euclidean plane is a tessellation of the region by dominoes, shapes formed by the union of two unit squares meeting edge-to-edge. Equivalently, it is a perfect matching in the grid graph formed by pl ...
, an item in statistical mechanics, based on ''domino tiling''
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Julius Dimer (1871–1945), German chess master
See also
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Dimery (botany), having two parts in a distinct whorl of a plant structure
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Di (disambiguation)
Di or DI may refer to:
Arts and media Music
* Di, a tone in the solfège ascending chromatic scale existing between Do and Re
* dizi (instrument) or di, a Chinese transverse flute
* ''D.I.'' (band), a punk band from Southern California
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, a prefix
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Dymer (disambiguation)
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-mer, a suffix
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Oligomer
In chemistry and biochemistry, an oligomer () is a molecule that consists of a few repeating units which could be derived, actually or conceptually, from smaller molecules, monomers.Quote: ''Oligomer molecule: A molecule of intermediate relativ ...
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Peierls transition, sometimes called dimerization
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