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单词 self-assembly
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Definition of self-assembly in English:

self-assembly

noun ˌsɛlfəˈsɛmbliˈˌsɛlf əˈsɛmbli
mass noun
  • 1British The construction of an object, especially a piece of furniture, from materials sold in kit form.

    you can buy it as a flat-pack for self-assembly
    as modifier self-assembly furniture
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The main advantage of Microsoft products is that, like IKEA self-assembly furniture, they are character-building.
    • With portable flat-pack, self-assembly furniture and increase in built-in storage space, the wheel has almost turned full circle.
    • The weekend was a positive blur of flat-pack furniture purchasing, followed by hours of puzzling self-assembly at home, concluding with the dilemma about what to do with all that cardboard packaging.
    • The self-assembly chairs, tables and sofas fit together without screws or glue.
    • To the relief of many, the flatpack self-assembly aesthetic will be replaced by high margin, ready-assembled furniture.
    • The bad news is that these stands are self-assembly with several hundred tiny screws and washers.
    • I was on the verge of buying some nice shelves, but when I saw that they were self-assembly, I got a disturbing flashback to my months in flat-pack hell.
    • The substitution of tryptophan residues, therefore, does not affect actin self-assembly into filaments.
    • This might persuade my husband and daughters to use the rack - that, incidentally, I made with my own fair hands (the first self-assembly kit I've mastered).
    • We measure up for laminate flooring and self-assembly bookcases.
    • They are ghastly chrome and stripped pine affairs with all the atmosphere of a self-assembly wardrobe.
    • The self-assembly furniture retailer said it was unable to deliver orders on time due to supply chain problems.
    • When it comes to piecing together a performance, they can, at their worst, resemble a befuddled man confronted by self-assembly furniture.
    • A DIY chain store today moved to ease safety fears over self-assembly fireplaces being sold at its stores.
    • Knowing my luck, it will probably be self-assembly when DIY is the very thing one is trying to avoid.
    Synonyms
    do-it-yourself, DIY, self-build
    flat-pack, in kit form, kit, do-it-yourself, DIY, self-build
  • 2Biology
    The spontaneous formation of a ribosome, virus, or other body in a medium containing the appropriate components.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They also provide an opportunity to study self-assembly of transmembrane helix bundles, a process believed to be important in the folding of membrane proteins.
    • Our results demonstrate that the mechanisms of spore coat self-assembly are similar to those described for inorganic and macromolecular crystallization.
    • As has been commented on earlier, self-assembly of the cyclic peptides into a synthetic channel proceeds through the formation of eight intersubunit backbone-backbone hydrogen bonds.
    • Its eight cysteine residues form four disulfide bridges that prevent spontaneous self-assembly in solution and thus account for the controlled assembly at hydrophilic-hydrophobic interfaces.
    • We have also demonstrated a new application of these tethered membrane nanotubules, namely as biosensors to probe the real time dynamics of DNA self-assembly.

Derivatives

  • self-assemble

  • verb ˌsɛlfəˈsɛmb(ə)lˌsɛlfəˈsɛmb(ə)l
    [no object]British
    • 1Construct an object, especially a piece of furniture, from materials sold in kit form.

      we offer a factory assembly service for customers not wishing to self-assemble
      1. 1.1Biology (of a ribosome, virus, or other body) form spontaneously in a medium containing the appropriate components.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • with object I self-assembled the shed following the instructions
      • In vitro, fibrinogen self-assembles into a cross-linked and branched semiflexible fibrin network upon activation by thrombin.
      • The new ink Xerox has developed is based on a polythiophene semi-conductor, which self-assembles into ordered nano-particles that are stable even when dispersed in liquid.
      • In contrast to the SMBVs, however, the membrane of Lipobead self-assembles without any homogenization, probably by using the anchors as pinning centers.
      • in water, the molecules self-assemble into soluble particles
      • the hybrid virus self-assembles
 
 

Definition of self-assembly in US English:

self-assembly

nounˈˌsɛlf əˈsɛmbliˈˌself əˈsemblē
  • 1Biology
    The spontaneous formation of a ribosome, virus, or other body in a medium containing the appropriate components.

  • 2British The construction of an object, especially a piece of furniture, from materials sold in kit form.

    as modifier self-assembly furniture
    Synonyms
    do-it-yourself, diy, self-build
    flat-pack, in kit form, kit, do-it-yourself, diy, self-build
 
 
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