Antonyms for molecule
ˈmɒl əˌkyulmol·e·cule

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1. molecule

   A particle is a very small part of any material substance; as, a particle of sand or of dust; it is a general term, not accurately determinate in meaning. Atom (Greek a- privative, not, and temno, cut) etymologically signifies that which can not be cut or divided, and is the smallest conceivable particle of matter, regarded as absolutely homogeneous and as having but one set of properties; atoms are the ultimate particles of matter. A molecule is made up of atoms, and is regarded as separable into its constituent parts; as used by physicists, a molecule is the smallest conceivable part which retains all the characteristics of the substance; thus, a molecule of water is made up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. Element in chemistry denotes, without reference to quantity, a substance regarded as simple, i. e., one incapable of being resolved by any known process into simpler substances; the element gold may be represented by an ingot or by a particle of gold-dust. In popular language, an element is any essential constituent; the ancients believed that the universe was made up of the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water; a storm is spoken of as a manifestation of the fury of the elements. We speak of corpuscles of blood. Compare PART.

   Antonyms:
   aggregate, entirety, mass, quantity, sum, sum total, total, whole

   Synonyms:
   atom, corpuscle, element, grain, iota, jot, mite, particle, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit

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1. molecule

   Antonyms:
   body, bulk, organism, compound, structure

   Synonyms:
   atom, monad

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1. moleculenoun

   (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound

   Synonyms:
   mote, atom, speck, corpuscle, particle

2. atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, specknoun

   (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

   Synonyms:
   mote, jot, soupcon, touch, tinge, blood corpuscle, corpuscle, blood cell, particle, speck, hint, pinch, atom, mite, pinpoint, subatomic particle

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1. moleculenoun

   Synonyms:
   atom, monad

How to use molecule in a sentence?

1. Robert McKenna:

   It never ceases to amaze me how a simple molecule such as saccharin— something many people put in their coffee every day— may have untapped uses, including as a possible lead compound to target aggressive cancers.

2. Uwe Meierhenrich:

   Glyceraldehyde is a molecule of outstanding importance.

3. David Gruber:

   The exciting part of this study is the description of an entirely new form of marine biofluorescence from sharks -- one that is based on brominated tryptophan-kynurenine small-molecule metabolites.

4. Konstantinos Giapis:

   At the time we thought it would be impossible to combine the two oxygen atoms of a CO2 molecule together because CO2is a linear molecule, and you would have to bend the molecule severely for it to work, youre doing something really drastic to the molecule.

5. Sekyu Choi:

   We first asked whether the stress hormone was regulating the stem cells directly and checked by taking out the receptor for corticosterone, but this turned out to be wrong. Instead, we found that the stress hormone actually acts on a cluster of dermal cells underneath the hair follicle, known as the dermal papilla, dermal papilla is known to be critical for activating hair follicle stem cells, but none of the previously identified factors secreted from dermal papilla changed when stress hormone levels were altered. Rather, the stress hormone prevented dermal papilla cells from secreting Gas6, a molecule that the researchers showed can activate the hair follicle stem cells.

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