underwrapping
English
Verb
underwrapping
- present participle of underwrap
Noun
underwrapping (plural underwrappings)
- The act of underwrapping something.
- 1967, World's Press News and Advertisers' Review - Volume 77:
- Mechanised underwrapping and the rapid, efficient, automatic cross-tying of newspaper bundles are forging the final link of complete automation in the mailing rooms not only of many of the United Kingdom's major newspaper houses but also leading publishing houses in overseas countries.
- 1991, Presstime - Volume 13, page 24:
- In the Power Strap Inc. booth, a demonstration of bundle underwrapping and overwrapping draws rapt attention.
- 2012, C. Perret & Jean-Louis Vincent, Acute Heart Failure, →ISBN, page 377:
- A threaded screw assembly inside the knob prevents either the overwrapping or underwrapping of the IABP.
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- A material that forms an underwrapped layer.
- 1901, Edmund Mitchell, Only a Nigger, page 251:
- How carefully done up — tissue-paper underwrapping as well !
- 1994, The Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine - Volume 11, page 57:
- An underwrapping of thin polyester urethane foam may be applied next.
- 2006, Maritta Wolff -, Night Shift, page 421:
- Petey loosened the underwrapping of thin paper carefully, and Sally craned her neck for a first glimpse of the flowers.
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- (molecular biology) A state of being insufficiently desolvated, so that the main chain of hydrogen bonds in a protein are too accessible, rendering the protein unstable.
- 2011 -, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Evolutionary Genomics and Systems Biology, →ISBN:
- Crystal structures from PDB were analyzed totest whether duplicability of a geneis affected by its underwrapping (Liang et al., 2008).
- 2011, Katharina Dittmar & David Liberles, Evolution after Gene Duplication, →ISBN:
- However, protein underwrapping is only one cause of dosage effects.
- 2015, Ariel Fernández Stigliano, Biomolecular Interfaces: Interactions, Functions and Drug Design, →ISBN:
- Cross-examination of genetic and structural information revealed that the underwrapping or packing deficiency of a protein, ν, is a molecular quantifier of dosage sensitivity [5] precisely because it constitutes a measure of the reliance of the protein on binding partnerships to maintain the integrity of the native fold.
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