multimerizationn.
/ˌmʌltᵻmərʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /mʌlˌtɪmərʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /məlˈˌtɪmərəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˈˌməltəˌmərəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˈˌməltəməˌraɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ Chemistry.
The process or an act of forming a multimer; the degree to which something is multimeric.
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multimerization1972
1972 H.-G. Elias in M. B. Huglin Light Scattering from Polymer Solutions ix. 451 It is believed that multimerizations occur preferentially in thermodynamically poor solvents as expressed for polyvinyl chloride solutions.
1990 Nucleic Acids Res. 18 4293/1 It had both a non-palindromic protruding end and a blunt end, preventing multimerization of linkers.
1996 Thrombosis Res. 84 55 Analysis of collagen binding and platelet aggregation revealed that these activities increase with increasing degree of multimerization of vWF.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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