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What is the noun for moiety?

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moiety
  1. Half.
  2. A share or portion.
  3. (chemistry) A specific segment of a molecule.
  4. (anthropology) Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Xanthate anions and protonated xanthic acid contain a free thiol moiety and are highly reductive.”
      “The nucleosides are better models for the bases in DNA and RNA because the sugar moiety eliminates tautomers that cannot occur in the polymers.”
      “Insertion of the thymine moiety into the angelicin skeleton caused a folding of about 51 of the cyclohexyl moiety.”
moieties
  1. plural of moiety
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the iron diamagnetic form, magnetic anisotropy arises from the heme, aromatic moieties, and elements of secondary structure.”
      “The displacements of the cytoplasmic moieties of these helices amount to 0.1-0.2 nm.”
      “The polymer moieties have a valence orbital bond to the carbonaceous particulate, such as an ionic or covalent bond.”
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