ISOMERIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does isomerize mean? 

• ISOMERIZE (verb)
  The verb ISOMERIZE has 2 senses:

1. cause to change into an isomer

2. change into an isomer

  Familiarity information: ISOMERIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ISOMERIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they isomerize    ... he / she / it isomerizes   
Past simple: isomerized   
Past participle: isomerized   
-ing form: isomerizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to change into an isomer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

isomerise; isomerize

Hypernyms (to "isomerize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

isomerise; isomerize (change into an isomer)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

isomerization (the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Change into an isomer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

isomerise; isomerize

Hypernyms (to "isomerize" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

isomerise; isomerize (cause to change into an isomer)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

isomerization (the conversion of a compound into an isomer of itself)

 Context examples 

The photon isomerizes 11-cis-retinal to all-trans-retinal which induces a structural change that activates the opsin.

(Phototransduction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Glucose 1-phosphate is isomerized to produce glucose 6-phosphate, part of the glycolytic pathway.

(Feeder Pathways for Glycolysis, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The sugar mannose also enters glycolysis at this point, first being converted to mannose 6-phosphate that is then isomerized to produce fructose 6-phosphate.

(Feeder Pathways for Glycolysis, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)