Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.
- n. An apparatus for obtaining a graphic tracing of the form of the body.
Wiktionary
- n. any of a set of stereoisomers characterised by a conformation that corresponds to a distinct potential energy minimum
- n. A particular folded state or conformation of a protein.
- n. A person who conforms.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.
Examples
“Petabyte data equals about, say 10kB data per structure, maybe less if we use InChI and neglect conformer info, 100.000.000.000 structures.”
"The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete"
“The average person in the pews is a follower and a conformer and not a reformer.”
“This code will be incorporated into OpenBabel under the GPL in the coming months, making fast and accurate SMILES-to-3D conformer generation available to the open source community for the first time.”
“MCCAIN: All my life I have been iconoclastic -- and not a conformer, whether it would be in high school, or the Naval Academy, or in the Navy.”
“The Rowan stretched, easing stiff muscles as she swung her legs off the conformer.”
The Rowan
“[19] "Les docteurs de la loi sont unaniment d'accord sur l'obligation de conformer ses actions à ce qui est indiqué dans les traditions attribuées au Prophète," Ibn Khaldoun, vol.ii. p. 465.”
“Cowper-Temple clause, at the least: and so far as he is a convinced conformer, he is often compelled to strain, far beyond the meaning of the parable, the principle of letting the wheat and the tares grow together.”
“So far as the musician is a personal non-conformer and also a teacher (even if not a church organist), he is often compelled into a tacit agreement with the”
“One is content to be known as a conservative or a conformer; the other delights in being classed as a progressive or even as”
“But although she felt it almost a religious duty to be smart, determined as she was that the plutocracy should never, while she was alive, push the aristocracy through, the wall and out of sight, she was a strict conformer to the old tradition that had looked upon all arts to enhance and preserve youth as the converse of respectable.”
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