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multichimera

noun

Etymology

From multi- + chimera.

  1. derived from Chimäre
  2. derived from *ǵʰey-✻
  3. derived from Χίμαιρα
  4. derived from Chimaera
  5. derived from chimère
  6. inherited from chimere
  7. prefixed as multichimera — “multi + chimera”

Definitions

  1. A chimera containing genetically distinct cells originating from three or more zygotes.

    • The formation of Botryllus multichimeras sets the 'group level' (the assemblage of several genotypes into one unified entity) as the key level at which natural selection acts.
    • Around the time of the events that led to your birth, there was no longer anything new even about multichimeras.
    • However, it was suggested that potentially losing genotypes (defined as such in bi-chimeras scenario) might survive in multichimera entities as stem cells in refugia and successfully propagate to succeeding generations.

  2. A complex spatiotemporal pattern consisting of multiple coexisting domains of…

    A complex spatiotemporal pattern consisting of multiple coexisting domains of synchronized dynamics within a domain of incoherent dynamics, produced by a system of nonlocally coupled oscillators.

    • The multichimera state is shown to have a power law distribution of synchronized cluster sizes, whose exponent is found to be independent of the system parameters..

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for multichimera. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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