Meaning of multicorn | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of protease.
2. A fantastic creature similar to a unicorn but having multiple horns in a column along the center of its head.
3. The connectedness locus in the space of antiholomorphic unicritical polynomials; The set of parameters for which the Julia set is connected.

Examples

“The tricorn protease was first identified in thermophilic bacteria, but a related larger protease called multicorn exists in mammalian cells including hepatocytes (49).”

“Candidates for these downstream proteases are THIMET, tricorn, multicorn, TPPII, and leucine aminopeptidase.”

“Seven intracellular proteolytic enzymes in this yeast have been described: one aminopeptidase yspI, two endoproteinases named yspA and yspB, one dipeptidyl aminopeptidase yspI, one carboxypeptidase yspI, and two cytosolic proteolytic complexes, the multicorn peptidase and the 26S proteasome.”

“His body is a spider with wings of a butterfly, and his head is a multicorn.”

“Long ago there was a man who had a multicorn with which he plowed his land.”

“I looked like a unicorn—a multicorn.”

“What does the multicorn look like? It looks like Pegasus, but it has got...”

“The main results of the article show that the dynamically natural straightening map from a 'baby multicorn', either in multicorns of even degree or in the real cubic locus, to the original multicorn is discontinuous at infinitely many explicit parameters.”

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