chaperone
Meaning of chaperone
noun
- An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
- A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
verb
To act as a chaperone.
Information about chaperone
- The plural form of chaperone is: chaperones.
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Hyphenation of chaperone
chap-er-one
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- chaperone is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
chaperone synonyms
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