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nucleate

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for nucleate.

Editorial note

One simply needs to nucleate a community with some irrational desire for an abstraction of value to manifest extant value.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech3

Quick take

To form (into) a nucleus, or to act as a nucleus.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of nucleate gathered in one view.

verb

To form (into) a nucleus, or to act as a nucleus.

noun

Any salt of a nucleic acid.

adjective

Having a nucleus; nucleated

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nucleate.

verb

To form (into) a nucleus, or to act as a nucleus.

noun

Any salt of a nucleic acid.

adjective

Having a nucleus; nucleated

Example sentences

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One simply needs to nucleate a community with some irrational desire for an abstraction of value to manifest extant value.

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The best we can hope for is to occasionally stir this pot once in a while and hopefully something will spontaneously nucleate once the time is right.

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And I think the quasi-exclusive programs also nucleate certain perspectives, culture, and communities which themselves can be pretty detrimental.

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Fast forward to today and people can nucleate skyrmions at room-temperature using multilayers of more conventional materials, so at least that was some progress.

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You invite people with similar interests as this the network can nucleate around some niche, rather than being 10,000 people with nothing in common.

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Although one should never believe the ravings, useful work does surprisingly often nucleate around them, just not to the degree or with the speed promised.

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The plant nanoparticle is hydrophilic, and will nucleate tiny water droplets.

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I've frequently wanted to nucleate discussions without being too orthogonal to thread topics.

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It's going to nucleate from within Alberta and Saskatchewan.

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Cults of personality nucleate around the wealthy and powerful.

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When the conference length is smaller than the penetration depth (up to a factor of sqrt(2)), flux vortices can nucleate as soon as the surface magnetic field gets above the lower critical field Bc1.

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The same mechanism is likely in play here as well (it is an artifact of QCD) -- the idea is that hadronization can be energetically favorable to annihilation: since the gluons carry a strong charge (color), they participate in the interaction and can nucleate a light q/q-bar pair rather than requiring an additional (virtual) gluon to couple to the annihilation vertex.

Quote examples

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That's all assuming we can't "break physics" and nucleate something new, find a tear in our current manifold, etc.

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"Gemini" as a protocol and name is just there for the community to nucleate around.

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>On the other hand, plasmodial slime molds start out as individual amoeboid cells, but join together to form a multi-nucleate mass having only one cellular membrane (a "super-cell" containing multiple nuclei).

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In both cases, you're getting jostled around more when there's an opposing flow in front of you than when you're in a lane of people going in the same direction, so there will be a tendency for lanes to form spontaneously ("nucleate"), even from a completely homogeneous initial configuration.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use nucleate in a sentence?

One simply needs to nucleate a community with some irrational desire for an abstraction of value to manifest extant value.

What does nucleate mean?

To form (into) a nucleus, or to act as a nucleus.

What part of speech is nucleate?

nucleate is commonly used as verb, noun, adjective.