chaperones

Meaning of chaperones

noun
  1. An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
  2. 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 chaperones

  • The singular form of chaperones is: chaperone.
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Hyphenation of chaperones

chap-er-ones

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • chaperones is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Anagrams of chaperones

canephores

Words that rhyme with chaperones

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