BANDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does banding mean? 

• BANDING (noun)
  The noun BANDING has 2 senses:

1. a stripe or stripes of contrasting color

2. an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material

  Familiarity information: BANDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stripe or stripes of contrasting color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

band; banding; stria; striation

Context example:

the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps

Hypernyms ("banding" is a kind of...):

bar; streak; stripe (a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banding"):

collar ((zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal)

stretch mark (a narrow band resulting from tension on the skin (as on abdominal skin after pregnancy))

Sense 2

Meaning:

An adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

band; banding; stripe

Hypernyms ("banding" is a kind of...):

adornment (a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banding"):

cigar band (a narrow paper band around a cigar)

hatband (a band around the crown of a hat just above the brim)

neckband (a band around the collar of a garment)

pinstripe (a very thin stripe (especially a white stripe on a dark fabric))

Holonyms ("banding" is a part of...):

garment (an article of clothing)

 Context examples 

This stain preferentially binds to the phosphate groups of DNA and aggregates at areas with an increase in adenine-thymine binding, thus leading to chromosomal staining patterns that lend themselves to g-banding analysis.

(Giemsa Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

A region on a chromosome which, when stained, is uniform in appearance. (Normally, a stained chromosome shows a banding pattern.) Homogeneously staining regions contain multiple copies of a single gene.

(Homogeneously Staining Region, NCI Thesaurus)

For the human genome, the lowest-resolution physical map is the banding patterns on the 24 different chromosomes, the highest-resolution map would be the complete nucleotide sequence of the chromosomes.

(Physical Map of the Human Genome, NCI Thesaurus)

Banding also permits the recognition of chromosome deletions (lost segments), chromosome duplications (surplus segments) and other types of structural rearrangements of chromosomes.

(Chromosome Banding, NCI Thesaurus)

HeLa Marker Chromosomes: One copy of Ml, one copy of M2, four-five copies of M3, and two copies of M4 as revealed by G-banding patterns.

(HeLa, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid dosage form in which the drug is enclosed within either a hard or soft soluble container made from a suitable form of gelatin; through a banding process, the capsule is coated with additional layers of gelatin so as to form a complete seal.

(Gelatin Coated Capsule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Cytogenetics Shared Resource provides Cancer Center members with support in following areas: routine cytogenetic (such as giemsa (G)-banding on fibroblast, lymphoblast or somatic cell hybrid lines to determine karyotypes, etc.), fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for clarification of karyotypes, and SKY (spectral karyotyping), to analyze chromosomal changes, microsatellite analysis of tumors for loss of heterozygosity, mutation analysis of tumors, chimerism studies of bone marrow transplants; maintenance of cell lines and lymphocytes.

(Cytogenetics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

When chromosomes at a particular stage in cell division are stained using one of several laboratory techniques, a specific pattern of light and dark stripes (bands) appears when the chromosomes are viewed through a microscope; the banding pattern assists in assigning each chromosome its particular number and evaluating its structure.

(Chromosome Band, NCI Dictionary)