labeling

English

Alternative forms

• labelling (UK)

Noun

labeling (plural labelings)

1. A set of labels applied to the various objects in a system.
   • 2009 January, Bernard Russo, James J. Tattersall, “Program of the Sessions: Washington, District of Columbia, January 5-8, 2009”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 56:1[1], page 143:

     4:00PM (722) An upper bound for the number of graceful labelings of a path with n edges. Sylvia R. Naples, Bard College

2. (biochemistry) The introduction of a traceable chemical group (e.g., containing an isotope or a fluorescent dye) into a protein or other biomolecule of interest so it can be tracked or quantified during experimental analysis.
   • 1992, David C. Morrison, John Louis Ryan, Bacterial Endotoxic Lipopolysaccharides: Molecular biochemistry and cellular biology, →ISBN, page 407:

     There are two potential problems with this approach: first, the specificity of labeling depends on the purity of the LPS (if contaminants are present, they may be labeled also); second, removal of the label from the LPS in vivo might occur separately from processing of the LPS molecule itself.

Synonyms

• tagging

Derived terms

• photoaffinity labeling

Translations

set of labels

• Catalan: etiquetatge (ca) m
• Finnish: merkintä (fi)
• French: étiquetage (fr) m
• Galician: etiquetaxe (gl) f, etiquetado m
• Italian: etichettatura (it) f
• Spanish: etiquetaje m, etiquetado (es) m

Verb

labeling

1. present participle and gerund of label