INORGANIC PHOSPHATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inorganic phosphate mean? 

• INORGANIC PHOSPHATE (noun)
  The noun INORGANIC PHOSPHATE has 1 sense:

1. a salt of phosphoric acid

  Familiarity information: INORGANIC PHOSPHATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INORGANIC PHOSPHATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt of phosphoric acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

inorganic phosphate; orthophosphate; phosphate

Hypernyms ("inorganic phosphate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

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

calcium phosphate (a phosphate of calcium; a main constituent of animal bones)

sodium orthophosphate; sodium phosphate (phosphate of sodium; used as a laxative to cleanse the bowels)

 Context examples 

Genes that encode the class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of glycosyl groups to an acceptor; often another carbohydrate molecule, a protein, or inorganic phosphate.

(Glycosyltransferase Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The acceptor molecules are frequently carbohydrate molecules, or inorganic phosphates.

(Glycosyltransferase, NCI Thesaurus)

A calcium-free, iron and magnesium hydroxy carbonate and inorganic phosphate binder with phosphate lowering activity.

(Fermagate, NCI Thesaurus)

A protein domain that binds ATP and catalyzes its convertion to ADP and inorganic phosphate.

(ATPase Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

An enzyme that catalyses the cleavage of inorganic phosphate non-specifically from a wide variety of phosphate esters and having a high (greater than 8) pH optimum.

(Alkaline Phosphatase, NCI Thesaurus)