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Elongate vs Elongase - What's the difference?

elongate | elongase |

As an adjective elongate

is lengthened, extended.

As a verb elongate

is to make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.

As a noun elongase is

(enzyme) any enzyme that catalyzes the elongation of an aliphatic chain, but especially one that elongates a fatty acid.

elongate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • lengthened, extended.
  • slender.

    • Verb

    (elongat)
  • To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
  • To depart to, or be at, a distance; especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
  • (obsolete) To remove further off.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)

    elongase

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyzes the elongation of an aliphatic chain, but especially one that elongates a fatty acid

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