HYDROPHOBICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrophobicity mean? 

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

1. the property of being water-repellent; tending to repel and not absorb water

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROPHOBICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being water-repellent; tending to repel and not absorb water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)

Derivation:

hydrophobic (lacking affinity for water; tending to repel and not absorb water; tending not to dissolve in or mix with or be wetted by water)

 Context examples 

N-Myristoylation is the covalent attachment of myristic acid, a saturated 14-carbon fatty acid inserted in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the lipid bilayer, by an amide linkage to the amino-terminal glycine residue of a protein in order to increase the hydrophobicity of some membrane proteins or to promote membrane localization of some cytoplasmic proteins.

(N-Myristoylation, NCI Thesaurus)

In the first phase of their study, the researchers created a few dozen variants of the original peptide and then measured how those changes affected the peptides' helical structure and their hydrophobicity, which also helps to determine how well the peptides interact with membranes.

(Venom of Wasp, Bee Repurposed as Antibiotic Drug, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)