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L IH1 G AH0 N D
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A molecule or moiety (ion, functional group, or radical) that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex; as, especially:
Such an entity that binds to a central metal atom to form a coordination complex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: physical
Qualifier: coordination chemistry
Topics: chemistry, inorganic-chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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A molecule or moiety (ion, functional group, or radical) that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex; as, especially:
Such an entity that forms a complex with a biomolecule to serve a biological purpose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: physical
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, inorganic-chemistry, medicine, microbiology, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, pharmacology, physical-sciences, physiology, sciences
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A letter that orthography requires or allows to be ligated with one or more other letters to form a ligature, such as a in æ or o in œ.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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a substance (an atom or molecule or radical or ion) that forms a complex around a central atom
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: substance
Borrowed from Latin ligandus, gerundive of ligo (“bind”).
Across languages
Translations 36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Arabic :
ربيطة
(rabita)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Bengali :
লিগ্যান্ড
(ligênḍ)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Catalan :
lligand
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Chinese Mandarin :
配體 /配体
(pèitǐ)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Finnish :
ligandi
— something that binds to another chemical entity
French :
ligand
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Galician :
ligando
— something that binds to another chemical entity
German :
Ligand
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Hebrew :
ליגנד
(ligánd)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Hungarian :
ligandum
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Ido :
ligando
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Indonesian :
ligan
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Irish :
liogann
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Italian :
ligando
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Italian :
legante
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Japanese :
配位子
(haiishi)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Japanese :
リガンド
(rigando)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Kazakh :
лиганд
(ligand)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Khmer :
លីកង់
(liikɑng)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Korean :
리간드
(rigandeu)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Malay :
ligan
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Persian :
لیگاند
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Polish :
ligand
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Polish :
addend
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Portuguese :
ligando
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Portuguese :
ligante
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Russian :
лига́нд
(ligánd)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Serbo-Croatian :
лига̀нди
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Serbo-Croatian :
ligàndi
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Spanish :
ligando
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Swedish :
ligand
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Tamil :
ஈந்தணைவி
(īntaṇaivi)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Thai :
ลิแกนด์
(lí-gaen)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Ukrainian :
ліга́нд
(lihánd)
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Vietnamese :
phối tử
— something that binds to another chemical entity
Polish :
ligand
— letter that must be ligated
