homolog

See also: Homolog

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from French homologue, From Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos, agreeing, of one mind), equivalent to homo + -log

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɒməlɒɡ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːməlɑːɡ/, /ˈhoʊməlɑːɡ/
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Noun

homolog (plural homologs)

  1. Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or a chromosome.
    • 2008, Chan-seok Jeong, Minho Lee, Dongsup Kim, Ratko Magjarevic, editor, World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, Volume 1 (Biomedical Engineering), →ISBN, page 171:
      Detecting remote homolog by protein similarity network.
  2. (linguistics) A word shared by two languages or dialects.
  3. (genetics) One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry.
  4. (organic chemistry) A member of a homologous series

German

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Adjective

homolog (not comparable)

  1. homologous (all senses)

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