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An unsaturated fatty acid in which one or more of the double bonds has the trans orientation instead of the usual cis orientation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, organic-chemistry, physical-sciences
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a fatty acid that has been produced by hydrogenating an unsaturated fatty acid (and so changing its shape); found in processed foods such as margarine and fried foods and puddings and commercially baked goods and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fatty acid
Narrower terms: elaidic acid
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5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
反式脂肪酸
(fǎnshì zhīfángsuān)
— type of unsaturated fatty acid
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Danish:
transfedtsyre
— type of unsaturated fatty acid
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Finnish:
transrasvahappo
— type of unsaturated fatty acid
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Norwegian Bokmål:
transfettsyre
— type of unsaturated fatty acid
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Russian:
транс-изомеры жирная кислота́
(trans-izomery žirnaja kislotá)
— type of unsaturated fatty acid