enzyme

noun
/ˈɛn.zaɪm/

Etymology

From German Enzym, coined 1878 by the German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + ζύμη (zúmē, “leaven”). By surface analysis, en- + zyme.

  1. borrowed from Enzym

Definitions

  1. A biomolecule that catalyses a biological chemical reaction

    A biomolecule that catalyses a biological chemical reaction: either a globular protein with this function or an RNA molecule with this function.

  2. Leavened bread, as opposed to azyme.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at enzyme. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at enzyme. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at enzyme

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA