microarray

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?

Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós)

Ancient Greek μῑκρο- (mīkro-)lbor.

English micro-

English array

English microarray

From micro- + array.

Noun

microarray (plural microarrays)

1. Any of several devices, containing a two-dimensional array of small quantities of biological material, used for various types of assay; the assay itself

Derived terms

• antibody microarray
• cell microarray
• chemical compound microarray
• DNA microarray
• intermicroarray
• microarrayed
• microarrayer
• oligomicroarray
• protein microarray
• tissue microarray

Translations

two-dimensional array of small quantities of biological material

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微陣列 / 微阵列

• Finnish: mikroruudukko, koetinsiru
• French: micromatrice, microréseau
• Greek: μικροσυστοιχία (el) f (mikrosystoichía)
• Italian: matrice ad alta densità, micromatrice
• Portuguese: microarray m, micromatriz f, microarranjo m
• Spanish: micromatriz, microarreglo

See also

• glycoarray

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?

Ancient Greek μῑκρός (mīkrós)

Ancient Greek μῑκρο- (mīkro-)lbor.

English micro-

English array

English microarrayubor.

Portuguese microarray

Unadapted borrowing from English microarray.

Noun

microarray f (plural microarrays)

1. microarray (two-dimensional array of small quantities of biological material)

   Synonyms: microarranjo, micromatriz