NASCENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nascent mean? 

• NASCENT (adjective)
  The adjective NASCENT has 1 sense:

1. being born or beginning

  Familiarity information: NASCENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NASCENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being born or beginning

Context example:

a nascent insurgency

Similar:

emergent; emerging (coming into existence)

dissilient (bursting open with force, as do some ripe seed vessels)

parturient (giving birth)

Antonym:

dying (in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be)

Derivation:

nascency (the event of being born)

 Context examples 

This allele, which encodes nascent polypeptide-associated complex subunit alpha protein, is involved in the regulation of protein sorting.

(NACA wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Poorly conserved and of variable length and number, intron sequences are removed from nascent message RNA transcripts in the nucleus after the 5' cap and polyA tail have been added.

(Intronic SNP, NCI Thesaurus)

Nascent polypeptide-associated complex subunit alpha (215 aa, ~23 kDa) is encoded by the human NACA gene.

(Nascent Polypeptide-Associated Complex Subunit Alpha, NCI Thesaurus)

Nascent CLCA2 may be cleaved into 86 kD N-terminal, and 34 kD C-terminal, polypeptides associated with the cell surface.

(Calcium-Activated Chloride Channel-2, NCI Thesaurus)

After formation, nascent phagosomes progressively acquire digestive characteristics.

(Phagocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

A diverse assortment of nascent, immature, unprocessed RNA transcripts synthesized from DNA templates that are found in eukaryotic nuclei before post-transcriptional modifications.

(hnRNA, NCI Thesaurus)

Nascent phagosomes undergo a process of maturation that involves fusion with lysosomes.

(Fc Gamma Receptor-Mediated Phagocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Cytoplasmic proteins of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes that bind to nascent or unfolded polypeptides and ensure correct folding or transport.

(Chaperone, NCI Thesaurus)

Genes that encode cytoplasmic proteins of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes that bind to nascent or unfolded polypeptides and ensure correct folding or transport.

(Chaperone Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

While the crack was growing, scientists had a hard time predicting when the nascent iceberg would break away.

(Massive Iceberg Breaks Off from Antarctica, NASA)