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3-D
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a three-dimensional form or appearance
Example:
aren't dreams always in 3-D?
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("3-D" is a kind of...):
appearance (a mental representation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A movie with images having three dimensional form or appearance
Synonyms:
3-D; 3D; three-D
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("3-D" is a kind of...):
film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)
Context examples:
The cells also produced high levels of modified tau, which formed threads in the 3-D culture.
(Human Cells Model Alzheimer’s Disease, NIH)
This technique requires a protein to first be crystallized into a fixed 3-D shape.
(Structural states of a brain receptor revealed, NIH)
The group next used 3-D printing to create a device that could capture and remove melittin from a solution.
(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)
These 2-D images are then combined to yield a detailed 3-D view of the virus.
(Zika virus structure revealed, NIH)
The team 3-D printed the prototype, allowing the creators to rapidly develop a design that worked.
(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)
The scientists formed 3-D woven textile scaffolds from a biomaterial.
(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)
Hydrogels are a 3-D water swollen polymer network, similar to Jell-O, simulating the structure of human tissues.
(Injectable Bandage Created, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The serotonin transporter can be difficult to prepare for X-ray crystallography, a technique that creates an image of a protein’s 3-D structure.
(Serotonin transporter structure revealed, NIH)
A computer is used to make 2-dimensional (2-D) and 3-D pictures of the colon from these x-rays.
(Computed tomographic colonography, NCI Dictionary)
The 3-D structure of peptides.
(Peptide Conformation, NCI Thesaurus)
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