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INTACT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does intact mean?
• INTACT (adjective)
The adjective INTACT has 4 senses:
1. constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged
2. (of a woman) having the hymen unbroken
3. (used of domestic animals) sexually competent
4. undamaged in any way
Familiarity information: INTACT used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged
Synonyms:
Context example:
fought to keep the union intact
Similar:
whole (including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete)
Derivation:
intactness (the state of being unimpaired)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of a woman) having the hymen unbroken
Synonyms:
intact; inviolate
Context example:
she was intact, virginal
Similar:
uninjured (not injured physically or mentally)
Derivation:
intactness (the state of being unimpaired)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(used of domestic animals) sexually competent
Synonyms:
entire; intact
Context example:
an entire horse
Similar:
uncastrated (not castrated)
Derivation:
intactness (the state of being unimpaired)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Undamaged in any way
Context example:
the vase remained intact despite rough handling
Similar:
undamaged (not harmed or spoiled; sound)
Derivation:
intactness (the state of being unimpaired)
Context examples
BCL9 translocation that leaves the coding region intact is associated with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
(B-Cell Lymphoma 9 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)
The identity of the target cell varies, but it must possess surface IgG whose Fc portion is intact.
(Antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity, NCI Thesaurus)
Location on a DNA strand where the phosphate backbone is intact but the nitrogenous base has been lost from both DNA strands.
(Bistrand Abasic Site, NCI Thesaurus)
The dermoepidermal basement membrane is intact.
(Bowen Disease of the Skin, NCI Thesaurus)
This process involves the invasion of a homologous region of an intact chromosome by the centromere-proximal end of the broken chromosome.
(Break-Induced Replication, NCI Thesaurus)
Compared to intact IgG antibodies, single-chain antibodies such as MR1scFv are smaller and may penetrate tumors better.
(Anti-EGFRvIII Immunotoxin MR1-1, NCI Thesaurus)
In the direct pathway, recipient T cells react to intact allogeneic MHC molecules expressed on the surface of donor cells.
(Allograft Rejection Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
However, NGTS-4b, nicknamed the ‘Forbidden Planet’, still has its atmosphere intact and is the first exoplanet of its kind to be found in the Neptunian Desert.
(‘Forbidden’ planet found wandering ‘Neptunian Desert’, University of Cambridge)
The team also found that individuals whose parents were separated but communicated with each other showed no increase in risk compared to the intact families.
(How Parents' Separation Impacts Adult Kids, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The women-only record of 2:17:01, held by Mary Jepkosgei Keitany also from Kenya, remained intact.
(Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record at Chicago Marathon, Wikinews)
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