CONSENSUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does consensus mean? 

• CONSENSUS (noun)
  The noun CONSENSUS has 1 sense:

1. agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole

  Familiarity information: CONSENSUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSENSUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

those rights and obligations are based on an unstated consensus

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

accord; agreement (harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters)

Derivation:

consensual (existing by consent)

 Context examples 

An analogue of consensus interferon which contains an additional methionyl amino acid residue.

(Interferon Alfacon-1, NCI Thesaurus)

Expressed in fetal perichondrium, uterus, cytotrophoblasts, and syncytiotrophoblasts as a 139-aa 15-kDa precursor by human INSL4 Gene (Insulin Family), Insulin-Like Peptide 4 contains 6 consensus half-cystine residues essential for tertiary structure.

(Insulin-Like Peptide 4, NCI Thesaurus)

The CYP2D6*4 allele exhibits a clinically-relevant SNP (g.1846G>A) at the consensus sequence of the splice site of intron 3 that results in a premature stop codon.

(CYP2D6*4 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A classification system developed to establish a consensus approach for pretreatment risk stratification of neuroblastomas.

(International Neuroblastoma Risk Group Classification System, NCI Thesaurus)

PEA3 appears to bind to the core consensus sequence GGAA recognized by other ETS proteins.

(PEA3, NCI Thesaurus)

N-glycans are covalently attached to asparagine with the consensus sequence of Asn-X-Ser/Thr by an N-glycosidic bond, GlcNAc b1-Asn.

(N-Glycan Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

LIM domains consist of a cysteine-rich consensus sequence containing two distinct zinc-binding subdomains, which mediate protein-protein interactions.

(LIM Domains Containing 1, NCI Thesaurus)

In all these cases the children were too young to give any properly intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a "bloofer lady."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The CYP1A2*7 allele exhibits a clinically-relevant SNP (g.3534G>A) in the 5' splice-site consensus sequence of intron 6 that is predicted to result in abnormal mRNA splicing.

(CYP1A2*7 Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The model-consensus at present is that of a Big Bang followed by an expansion.

(There May Be No Dark Matter, Dark Energy in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)