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Meaning of "reassortment" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REASSORTMENT

reassortment  [ˌriːəˈsɔːtmənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REASSORTMENT

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determiner
exclamation
Reassortment is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES REASSORTMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Reassortment

Reassortment is the mixing of the genetic material of a species into new combinations in different individuals. Several different processes contribute to reassortment, including assortment of chromosomes, and chromosomal crossover. It is particularly used when two similar viruses that are infecting the same cell exchange genetic material. In particular, reassortment occurs among influenza viruses, whose genomes consist of eight distinct segments of RNA. These segments act like mini-chromosomes, and each time a flu virus is assembled, it requires one copy of each segment. If a single host is infected by two different strains of the influenza virus, then it is possible that new assembled viral particles will be created from segments whose origin is mixed, some coming from one strain and some coming from another. The new reassortant strain will share properties of both of its parental lineages. Reassortment is responsible for some of the major genetic shifts in the history of the influenza virus.

Definition of reassortment in the English dictionary

The definition of reassortment in the dictionary is the formation of a hybrid virus containing parts from the genomes of two distinct viruses in a mixed infection.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REASSORTMENT


adjustment
əˈdʒʌstmənt
apartment
əˈpɑːtmənt
appointment
əˈpɔɪntmənt
assortment
əˈsɔːtmənt
commitment
kəˈmɪtmənt
compartment
kəmˈpɑːtmənt
comportment
kəmˈpɔːtmənt
department
dɪˈpɑːtmənt
deportment
dɪˈpɔːtmənt
disappointment
ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntmənt
disportment
dɪˈspɔːtmənt
excitement
ɪkˈsaɪtmənt
investment
ɪnˈvɛstmənt
mistreatment
ˌmɪsˈtriːtmənt
pretreatment
priːˈtriːtmənt
recruitment
rɪˈkruːtmənt
sortment
ˈsɔːtmənt
statement
ˈsteɪtmənt
supportment
səˈpɔːtmənt
treatment
ˈtriːtmənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REASSORTMENT

reassail
reassemblage
reassemble
reassembly
reassert
reassertion
reassess
reassessment
reassign
reassignment
reassort
reassume
reassumption
reassurance
reassure
reassured
reassurer
reassuring
reassuringly
reast

WORDS THAT END LIKE REASSORTMENT

advertisement
allotment
contentment
cost-of-living adjustment
enactment
enchantment
enlistment
fire department
foreign investment
graphic design department
heat treatment
indictment
ointment
one-room apartment
police department
power of appointment
resentment
service department
State Department
studio apartment
the treatment

Synonyms and antonyms of reassortment in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «reassortment» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REASSORTMENT

Find out the translation of reassortment to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of reassortment from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «reassortment» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

重组
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

redistribución
570 millions of speakers

English

reassortment
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

reassortment
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الاندماج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

рекомбинация
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rearranjo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

reassortment
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

réassortiment
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Reassortment
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Reassortierung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

再集合
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유전자 재
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Reassortment
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tái tổ hợp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

reassortment
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रिओसरटमेंट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

reassorment
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

riassortimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

reasortyment
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рекомбінація
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rearanjarea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανακατάταξη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

herrangskikking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

reassortering
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

reassortment
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of reassortment

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REASSORTMENT»

The term «reassortment» is normally little used and occupies the 117.613 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REASSORTMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «reassortment» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «reassortment» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about reassortment

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REASSORTMENT»

Discover the use of reassortment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to reassortment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease
REASSORTMENT. IN. SEGMENTED. VIRUSES. The segmented RNA viruses provide an excellent model for studying genomic linkage disequilibrium. Genomes are broken up into two or more segments. Each segment replicates ...
Steven A. Frank, 2002
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Radiobiology for the Radiologist
Second, there is progression of cells through the cell cycle during the interval between the split doses, which has been termed reassortment. Third, there is an increase of surviving fraction resulting from cell division, or repopulation. if the ...
Eric J. Hall, Amato J. Giaccia, 2006
3
Avian Influenza
Transmission of human H1N1 influenza viruses to pigs has also been demonstrated and although these viruses appear unable to persist independently they are able to donate genes through genetic reassortment with other influenza viruses ...
Hans-Dieter Klenk, Mikhail N. Matrosovich, Jürgen Stech, 2008
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH: ...
23.11.1.3 Genome Reassortment One problem common to all segmented genome viruses is the production of virus particles that package the correct genetic complement (236). In the Bunyaviridae viruses, the RNAs extracted from purified ...
Anthony S. Fauci, Vassil St. Georgiev, 2009
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Neuro-oncology: The Essentials: The Essentials
The biological principles of fractionation are based on the four R's of radiobiology : Repair of sublethal damage, Reassortment of cells within the cell cycle, and Repopulation and Reoxygenation of hypoxic cells. Fractionation of the radiation ...
Mark Bernstein, Mitchel S. Berger, 2011
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Evolutionary Biology: Mechanisms and Trends: Mechanisms and ...
For example: • The human-hosted dataset showed distinct reassortment signatures primarily for antigenic and polymerase genes, with clearly defined and persistent (i.e. longlived) reassortant populations. A number of these could be traced ...
Pierre Pontarotti, 2012
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Essential Cell Biology, Fourth Edition
Thanks to this random reassortment of maternal and paternal homologs, an individual could in principle produce 2n genetically different gametes, where n is the haploid number of chromosomes. With 23 chromosomes to choose from, each ...
Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Karen Hopkin, 2013
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Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics: Theory and Practice
Thebiologicalfactors that influence theresponseofnormaland neoplastic tissues to fractionatedradiotherapy can be summarised as: Repair As evidenced by cellularrecovery during the few hours afterexposure Reassortment Cell-cycle ...
P Mayles, A Nahum, J.C Rosenwald, 2007
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Microbial Diversity: Current Perspectives and Potential ...
generated reassortment in insect vectors (e.g. Culicoides variipennis) is reportedly higher (42%) than in vertebrate host (e.g. 5% in sheep) (Samal et al., 1987b). When a cell is infected with two or more related viruses, the ssRNA precursors of ...
‎2005
10
The Genomic Evolution of Human Influenza A Virus
1998; Lindstrom et al. 1999). As a case in point, a detailed phylogenetic analysis of 413 complete viral genomes from New York State, USA, sampled over a 7-year period, revealed 14 reassortment events based on incongruent phylogenetic ...
Martha I. Nelson, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REASSORTMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term reassortment is used in the context of the following news items.
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Avian Flu Scan for Jan 15, 2015
Phylogenetic analysis has shown that H10N8 in chickens was generated through multiple reassortments between H10 and N8 viruses from domestic ducks and ... «CIDRAP, Jan 15»
2
H7N9 Bird Flu Virus Has Pandemic Potential
"With the combination of vaccine-driven selection and reassortment going on, you got the precursor of the H9N2 that was optimal for complementing H7N9 and ... «Design & Trend, Jan 15»
3
Unraveling H7N9's History
“With the combination of vaccine-driven selection and reassortment going on, you got the precursor of the H9N2 that was optimal for complementing H7N9 and ... «Scientist, Dec 14»
4
H5 Avian influenza rising in China
But respiratory viruses – particularly novel influenzas – have far greater pandemic potential, and influenza reassortments (see chart above) have a long history ... «Outbreak News Today, Oct 14»
5
Ebola and the Endgame: Whatever the Next Plague, It's Not a …
But long-term concerns about “viral reassortment” are real. And like the rest of the world, even the United States remains vulnerable to pandemics from a variety ... «CALIFORNIA, Oct 14»
6
It's Not Just Ebola
Last year, in EID Journal: Predicting Hotspots for Influenza Virus Reassortment, we looked at research that ranked eastern China as one of the globe's top ... «Outbreak News Today, Sep 14»
7
Influenza A and B Virus Intertypic Reassortment through Compatible …
Possible mechanisms inhibiting the intertypic reassortment of genetic segments could be due to incompatible protein functions of segment homologs, a lack of ... «Journal of Virology, Aug 14»
8
Flu Scan for Mar 12, 2014
... influenza viruses, suggesting that the reassortment that created the 2009-10 pandemic virus was a rare event, the investigators reported yesterday in mBio. «CIDRAP, Mar 14»
9
Genomewide Analysis of Reassortment and Evolution of Human …
Influenza A(H3N2) viruses became widespread in humans during the 1968 H3N2 virus pandemic and have been a major cause of influenza epidemics ever ... «Journal of Virology, Feb 14»
10
Analysis of new H7N9 wave warns of coinfection threat
... its parallel rise with seasonal flu poses a virus reassortment threat, according to a new assessment today from European health officials. Activities surrounding ... «CIDRAP, Jan 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Reassortment [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/reassortment>. Apr 2024 ».
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