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Definition of Clathrate
1. Adjective. Having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows.
Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Similar to: Reticular, Reticulate
2. Adjective. Designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another.
Definition of Clathrate
1. a. Shaped like a lattice; cancellate.
Definition of Clathrate
1. Adjective. (biology) having a lattice-like structure ¹
2. Adjective. (chemistry) of an inclusion complex in which molecules of one compound are enclosed within the crystal structure of another ¹
3. Noun. (chemistry) a clathrate compound ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clathrate
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Clathrate
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Clathrate
Literary usage of Clathrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Preparing for Climate Change: Proceedings, Second North American Conference (1993)
"In regions where older sediments are found in the clathrate stability zone, ...
The fraction of the available clathrate volume—porosity times total ..."
2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"... found in proteins include the nonpolar groups which form clathrate compounds,
... molecules form clathrate- type lattices around proteins in solution. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1859)
"Elytra moderately clathrate ; interstices (except the smooth costae) densely
punctured, P. elata Lee. 2. Elytra coarsely clathrate ; interstices (except the ..."
4. Prospects for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells by International Energy Agency (2005)
"clathrate hydrates are H20-ice cage structures that may contain guest molecules
... MOF and clathrate hydrates are promising and are some of the new storage ..."
5. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International Conference by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"The leading models of liquid water are "mixture models" involving monomers and
either hydrogen bonded clusters, clathrate structures, or other arrangements ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1904)
"Spire whorls eight, flat, or slightly convex between the sutures, the first three
spire-whorls with a fine clathrate ornament owing to about three of the ..."
7. The Roman Comagmatic Region by Henry Stephens Washington (1906)
"The texture, different from the clathrate one with numerous leucite microphenocrysts
of the ... clathrate ..."
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