IN TANDEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does in tandem mean? 

• IN TANDEM (adverb)
  The adverb IN TANDEM has 1 sense:

1. one behind the other

  Familiarity information: IN TANDEM used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IN TANDEM (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One behind the other

Synonyms:

in tandem; tandem

Context example:

riding horses down the path in tandem

 Context examples 

A transgenic mouse at F1 generation with background strain C57BL/6 crossed with BALB/cAn, containing three copies of the human c-Ha-Ras gene introduced in tandem.

(CB6F1-TgN (RasH2), NCI Thesaurus)

Two elements in the clay work in tandem to kill bacteria.

(Scientists discover how blue and green clays kill bacteria, NSF)

In tandem mass spectrometry, the set of amino end (n-terminus) ions created from a peptide.

(B-ion, NCI Thesaurus)

OVIRS will work in tandem with another OSIRIS-REx instrument — the Thermal Emission Spectrometer, or OTES.

(NASA to Map the Surface of an Asteroid, NASA)

Containing perfectly conserved histidine and cysteines residues. the BIR domain is about 70 residues long arranged in tandem repeats separated by a linker of variable length.

(BIR Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

The protein is thought to be the fetal counterpart of serum albumin, and the alpha-fetoprotein and albumin genes are present in tandem in the same transcriptional orientation on chromosome 4.

(Alpha-fetoprotein, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

MUC-1 antigen is a mammary-type apomucin, a high molecular weight transmembrane glycoprotein, of which the extracellular domain is formed by a repeating 20 amino acid sequence (in tandem) with a high content of serine and threonine on which are O-linked carbohydrate chains.

(MUC-1 Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)