[
UK
/kɒnfɔːmˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
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acting according to certain accepted standards
their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices -
any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
he could barely make out their shapes - a symmetrical arrangement of the parts of a thing
How To Use conformation In A Sentence
- This shift indicates a significant change in the peptide conformation due to the nature of the adsorbent surfaces.
- Then, we fix the adsorbed DNA molecules in their conformations thanks to uranyl acetate and we dry the sample using filter paper.
- Then, we fix the adsorbed DNA molecules in their conformations thanks to uranyl acetate and we dry the sample using filter paper.
- The term humanoid describes a general conformation to the traits of humanity, but implies an expansion of criteria to possibly include other species than homo sapiens sapiens. AMERICAN DIGEST
- For future markets, conformation and a consistently high yield of saleable meat will be paramount.
- When the driver pushed through the front door, Tim recognized his distinctive conformation. THE KILL CLAUSE
- All those recent results suggest a flexibility of the backbone conformational structure and several stable configurations are proposed and debated.
- Such a mixing of configurations is present in proteins, where the energy of the excited state is dissipated among many conformational substates.
- Together with the associated protein troponin, TM on actin can switch between two laterally shifted conformations.
- We note in passing that the timescale of the peptide backbone fluctuations which interconvert open and closed conformations is on the order of ~ 1 ns even for this minimalist elastin model.