nucleate

English

Adjective

nucleate (comparative more nucleate, superlative most nucleate)

1. Having a nucleus; nucleated

Verb

nucleate (third-person singular simple present nucleates, present participle nucleating, simple past and past participle nucleated)

1. To form (into) a nucleus, or to act as a nucleus.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 113:

     Lasker was the center of this collective, its nucleating force, its queen bee.

Noun

nucleate (plural nucleates)

1. Any salt of a nucleic acid.

Derived terms

• anucleate
• binucleate
• denucleate
• denucleated
• dinucleating
• micronucleate
• mononucleate
• multinucleate
• nucleation
• nucleator
• paranucleate
• plurinucleate
• polymorphonucleate
• polynucleate
• quadrinucleate
• renucleate
• renucleation
• tetranucleate
• tetranucleating
• trinucleate
• trinucleating
• uninucleate

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu.kleˈa.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: nu‧cle‧à‧te

Adjective

nucleate

1. feminine plural of nucleato

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /nu.kleˈaː.te/, [nʊkɫ̪eˈäːt̪ɛ] or IPA^(key): /nuk.leˈaː.te/, [nʊkɫ̪eˈäːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nu.kleˈa.te/, [nukleˈäːt̪e] or IPA^(key): /nuk.leˈa.te/, [nukleˈäːt̪e]

Adjective

nucleāte

1. vocative singular masculine of nucleātus

Spanish

Verb

nucleate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of nuclear combined with te