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What is the adjective for nucleate?

What's the adjective for nucleate? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs nuclearize, nucleate and nuclearise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

nuclear

(biology) Pertaining to the nucleus of a cell. [from 19th c.]
Pertaining to a centre around which something is developed or organised; central, pivotal. [from 19th c.]
Pertaining to the atomic nucleus. [from 20th c.]
Involving energy released by nuclear reactions (fission, fusion, radioactive decay). [from 20th c.]
Of a weapon: deriving its force from rapid release of energy through nuclear reactions. [from 20th c.]
(by extension, metaphoric, of a solution or response) Involving the destruction of something.
Synonyms:

fissionable, atomic, fissile, nuclear-powered, thermonuclear, atom-powered

Examples:

“His second discovery, the nuclear model of the atom, became the basis for how we see the atom today.”

nucleic

Referring to the nucleus of something. (As nucleic acids are found in the nucleus of cells.)
Examples:

“The C5 atom of cytidine bears a substantially larger negative charge than many nitrogen atoms in popular nucleic acid force fields.”

“Let us remember that they are concerned with a DNA endonuclease, so I had some experience dealing with an enzyme that cut nucleic acids.”

“Unlike larger polypeptides and proteins, small nucleic acid duplexes and hairpins do not have a dense core to which this effect would apply.”

nucleal

Relating to a nucleus; nuclear.

nucleate

Having a nucleus; nucleated

nucleated

Having a nucleus or nuclei.

nucleonic

Of, pertaining to, or composed of nucleons.
Examples:

“Some kind of newfangled quantum nucleonic reactor is supposed to make it possible for long term flight.”

“Instead of a conventional fission reactor, it is focusing on a type of power generator called a quantum nucleonic reactor.”

“Since we started constructing negative-proton matter, we've found out a few things about nucleonic structure.”

nucleuslike

Resembling or characteristic of a nucleus.

nucleogenetic

Relating to nucleogenesis.

nucleolar

Of or pertaining to the nucleolus
Examples:

“Blocking deacetylation by sodium butyrate or trichostatin A derepresses silent rRNA genes subject to nucleolar dominance.”

“The nuclei in the yolk are knobbed bodies divided by a sponge work of septa into a number of areas each with a nucleolar body.”

“In addition to nucleolar prominence, multiple nucleoli and nucleolar margination have also been suggested as diagnostic criteria for prostate cancer.”

nucleating

That encourages nucleation

nucleopetal

Directed toward a nucleus.

nucleocentric

Centred on a nucleus.

nuclearized

simple past tense and past participle of nuclearize

nuclearizing

present participle of nuclearize

nuclearised

simple past tense and past participle of nuclearise

nuclearising

present participle of nuclearise

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