mono- 或 mon-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- One; single; alone:
前缀，一；单一；独立的：
monomorphic.
单形的 - Containing a single atom, radical, or group:
前缀，含有一个原子、基或原子团的：
monobasic.
一价的 - Monomolecular; monatomic:
前缀，单分子的；单原子的：
monolayer.
单分子层
语源
- Middle English
中古英语 - from Old French
源自 古法语 - from Latin
源自 拉丁语 - from Greek
源自 希腊语 - from monos [single, alone] * see men- 4
源自 monos [单，单一] *参见 men- 4
mono- or (before a vowel) mon-
combining form
one; single
⇒
monochrome
⇒
monorail
indicating that a chemical compound contains a single specified atom or group
⇒
monoxide
Origin
from Greek monosmono-
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “alone,” “single,” “one” (monogamy); specialized in some scientific terms to denote a monomolecular thickness (monolayer) and adapted in chemistry to apply to compounds containing one atom of a particular element (monohydrate).
Also, especially before a vowel, mon-.
Origin
< Greek, combining form of mónos alone
Related Words
- monocoque
- monogenean
- monomerous
- monometer
- monophthong
- Monophysite
mono-a word element:
1. meaning 'alone', 'single','one'.
2. denoting a monomolecular thickness, as in monofil, monolayer, etc.
3. adapted in chemistry to apply to compounds containing one atom of a particular element.
Also, mon-. [Greek, combining form of monos alone]
mono-
⇨ see mon-
⇨ see mon-
mono-
（元音前亦作mon-）
combining form
1.
- one; alone; single表示“单”, “一”, “单一”：
-
monocoque.
2.
- Chemistry (forming names of compounds) containing one atom or group of a specified kind【化】［构成化合物名称］表示“一的”, “单的”：
-
monoamine.
词源
from Greek monos 'alone'.
1927 Daily Express 24 Nov. 13 The most simple code is the ‘*monoalphabetic’, in which a letter is always represented by the same sign, letter, or numeral.
1893 Dunglison Med. Lex. (ed. 21)*Monanæsthesia.
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 302The co-existence of brachial monoplegia with brachial monoanæsthesia.
1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 259The best antidote to nationalistic idolatry is a monotheism with its corollary (since God's fatherhood implies men's brotherhood) of *monoanthropism.
1925 Contrib. Embryol. CarnegieInst. Washington XVI. 241Naegeli..derives the monocyte from the myeloblast of the bone-marrow..and terms this young cell the ‘*monoblast’.
1938 H. Downey Handbk. Hematol. I. v. 386Ehrich has taken..exception to Bloom's conclusion that monoblasts other than lymphocytes and myeloblasts do not exist.
1968 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxvi. 12/2These cells are produced mainly in the spleen and lymph nodes. The parent cell, the monoblast, is like the myeloblast and lymphoblast, a cell of about 15 µm in diameter with a large nucleus, containing 2–3 nucleoli, filling much of the cell cytoplasm. [ sc. monocytes]
1926 H. Blyth Mod. Telpherage & Ropeways xiii. 111The *mono-cable system has been developed very extensively in this country, and although formerly considered as being suitable only for light duty and small gradients, has now proved to be quite suitable for capacities up to 150 tons per hour and gradients of 1 in 2½.
1958 I. C. F. Statham Coal MiningPract. II. vii. 509The Mono-Cable is the oldest and simplest, being first used in Dantzig in 1644.
1964 Economist 14 Nov. 745/2 Using a mono-cable instead of dual cable suspension. [ for bridges]
1973 Gloss. Terms Materials Handling (B.S.I.) vii 8Mono-cable trestle, a structure supporting a mono-cable ropeway between the ropeway stations.
1957 C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon xxiv. 86Lenin's doctrine illustrates the weakness of *monocausal explanations of highly complex phenomena.
1972 R. Plant in Cox & Dyson 20thCent. Mind. I. v. 161Weber conceded that an economic interpretation of history and social life was possible, but he was not willing to accept any monocausal view in its entirety.
Ibid. 165Against the Marxist monocausal view of history therefore, Weber poses a far more complex picture.
1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. V.[ 129/2] The simpler and *mono⁓cellular Algæ.
1880 W. S. Kent Infusoria I. 99The mono⁓cellular unimpregnated ovum.
1878 tr. Gegenbaur'sComp. Anat. 597If the rete remains broken up, then it is known as a diffuse, unipolar, or *monocentric rete mirabile.
1887 H. M. Ward in Nature 27 Jan. 301/2A complexity is introduced as soon as the sap-vacuoles appear, in many cases making the cells not monocentric but polycentric.
1866 H. J. Clark in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. XLII. 324The *monociliate Flagellata.
1857 Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. ii. XIX. 260A group of *monociliated Monads.
1880 W. S. Kent Infusoria I. 145The normal, small, monociliated and uniciliated sponge-cells.
1965 Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. LIV. 1193For these purposes, one would prefer a *monocistronic message containing information for only one protein.
1972 Nature 21 Jan. 131/2 Each segment is transcribed into a single messenger RNA and at least eight of these ten molecules are translated as monocistronic messengers.
1914 W. E. Agar in Phil. Trans. R.Soc. B. CCV. 422When a population is known to have been descended asexually from a single common ancestor, it consists of a single clone and may be described as *monoclonal.
Ibid. 442The monoclonal population was descended from 70 original ancestors, themselves all descended parthenogenetically from a single known female.
1973 Sci. Amer. Aug. 44/1Are the plaque cells transformed cells, in which the genetic material has somehow become changed from that of the normal cell population? If so, the plaque cells could be expected to be monoclonal: a homogeneous population derived from a single cell, rather than a mixed population of cells as in normal human tissue.
1963 Listener 31 Jan. 220/2 The idea of using full orchestra was avoided... To paint a picture which should have universality of expression..the *monocolour of strings seemed the only possible medium.
1798 Trans. Soc. Arts XVI. 284A *mono-coloured substance.
1955 Times 25 June 5/6 The parties of the extreme left and those of the right favour a ‘mono-coloured’ Government..since such a one-party Government..would be more or less permanently at the mercy of right or left.
1890 Century Dict. ,*Monocondylar, *Monocondylian.
1891 Flower & Lydekker Mammals iii. 83The former have become *monocondylic by [ the Anomodontia] . [ etc.]
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet x. 161The consonantal principle and the selected symbols to represent *mono-consonantal words were used by the Egyptians at the beginning of the third millennium B.C.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 154In other cases we find monoconsonantal roots in one language cognate with biconsonantal forms in the other.
1899 Nature 9 Nov. 28/1 Following Vöchtung, the author recognises two principal types—the *monocormic and polycormic respectively... The common spruce fir is an example of a monocormic conifer.
1891 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,* Monocrotic, a term applied to the pulse in which the dicrotic wave is absent.
1877 Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) II. 22Among the principal dangerous signs are a marked dicrotous or *mono-crotous pulse.
1934 Rev. Sci. Instr. V. 402/2*Monocrystals with dimensions of the order of 10 cm were readily produced.
1946 Nature 10 Aug. 199/2 The X-ray density must be related to monocrystals, and if indeed the starch grain were a monocrystal the numbers found might be considered as a proof.
1973 Ibid. 16 Nov. 124/1Of future plans perhaps the most striking was V. Braginsky's..idea of using a massive monocrystal instead of an aluminium bar with a resultant very high quality factor to look for the sort of signals astronomers expect from nearby galaxies.
1934 Rev. Sci. Instr. V. 402/2The test showed the main body of the growth to be *monocrystalline with the seed.
1946 Nature 24 Aug. 261/1 An extensive study was made by R. Jacquersson on the effect of torsion on a monocrystalline rod.
1968 C. G. Kuper Introd. Theory Superconductivity vi. 97Pippard..made measurements with a number of monocrystalline cylindrical specimens of tin.
1949 Kirk & Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. IV. 382Monofunctional ligand groups..are sometimes known as unidentate or *monodentate groups.
1974 Jrnl. Inorg. & NuclearChem. XXXVI. 1221/1The behaviour of ethylenediamine as a monodentate ligand has also been reported in a few other cobalt..and chromium..complexes.
1891 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,*Monodermic, having an envelope or skin consisting of one layer only.
1897 Nature 7 Oct. 555/2 The elements which constitute the mono⁓dermic outer wall of the cœlom.
1880 Spalding Eliz. Demonology 17*Monodiabolism being as impossible as monotheism.
1972 J. L. Dillard Black English iii. 85Reading and writing almost pre-suppose a certain degree of mastery of Standard English, since nothing was written for the *monodialectal speaker of Plantation Creole.
1964 Archivum Linguisticum XVI. 73 Martinet.. two senses of the term dialect: dialect1, a variety of a language..used *monodialectally within a whole language area,..and dialect2, a local dialect within a larger dialect1 area. [ distinguishes]
1872 Brit. Assoc. Rep. ii. 23On *Monodiametral Quartan Curves. By F. W. Newman.
1920 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 May 349/2No matter what the advocate of a mixed-food diet may say to the contrary, there is no disputing the fact that the nearer one gets to the *mono-diet the better the health will be.
1953 ‘I. Devi’ Forever Young Forever Healthy v. 61The mono-diet..is the kind of diet where you eat only one type of food. It makes no difference whether it is only milk,..or anything else.
1952 New Biol. XII. 100Besides such two-dimensional layers of more or less loosely fixed molecules there certainly must exist some analogous linear phenomena along the edges of crystals, and this would make *monodimensional strings or chains of adsorbed particles.
1959 Brno Studies in English I. 31 The monodimensional character of spoken utterances..as opposed to the..polydimensional character of written utterances.
1854 Pereira's Polarized Light ( ed. 2) 196The pyramidal, the tetragonal, or the *monodimetric system.
1925 G. Barger tr. H. Freundlich's Elements ColloidChem. 132The preparation of colloidal solutions containing particles of uniform size—so-called unidisperse (*monodisperse) sols—is mostly very difficult.
1940 Glasstone Text-bk. PhysicalChem. xiv. 1232By means of the ultracentrifuge it has been found that many protein solutions are monodisperse.
1971 Europ. Jrnl. Biochem. XXIII. 575The binding of human serum albumin by monodisperse latex particles was studied.
1825 Carlyle Schiller iii. (1845) 154The plan was that it should comprise an immense multitude of detached couplets, each conveying a complete thought... It was at first intended to provide about a thousand of these pointed *monodistichs. [ the Xenien]
1950 Glasstone Sourcebk. Atomic Energy xi. 310/1Another source of *monoenergetic neutrons is the Li7(p,n)Be7 reaction, the energy of the incident protons being carefully controlled.
1954 Sci. News XXXIII. 41If, therefore, we bombard a nucleus of a particular element with a monoenergetic beam of particles, the nuclei which are excited as a result of the collisions taking place will have a wide range of excitation energies.
1971 Nature 3 Dec. 261/1 This factor can be experimentally determined through the use of mono-energetic gamma-ray sources.
1900 Heape in Q.Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. Nov. 16There are two forms of sexual season evident in female mammals; the *monœstrous, in which there is only a single œstrus at one or more particular times of the year (bitch), and the polyœstrous, in which there are two or more concurrent diœstrous cycles at a particular time of the year (mare).
1916 Cross & Bevan Text-bk. Paper-Making (ed. 4) i. 10The solution has been extensively applied to the production of artificial threads of high lustre, so-called ‘artificial silk’, and various grades of *Monofil (Crin, Crinole). [ cellulose]
1940 Times 21 Mar. 5/5 The other two factories will convert the raw material into intermediate products—monofil at the works of I.C.I. . [ etc.]
1972 Trout & Salmon June 58/2 Nylon monofil slips more easily through the rod-rings.
1949 Mod. Plastics Nov. 69/1Nylon *monofilaments are well established as a material for bristles.
1960 Aeroplane XCVIII. 43/3 The chafer covering the bead is of monofilament nylon, as in the case of all other Firestone tubeless tyres, to prevent capillary action of the air and so assist in the maintenance of pressure.
1960 M. Sharcott Place of Many Winds vii. 115These lures..are attached to nylon monofilament lines in varying lengths.
1973 Sci. Amer. Dec. 134/1New forms of nylon rope without stretch (a braided sheath around a monofilament core) are used for the long, dark climb.
1880 W. S. Kent Infusoria I. 310A simple *monoflagellate organism.
1898 Sedgwick Student'sText-bk. Zool. I. 30Monoflagellate forms.
1946 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. LXVIII. 360/2The *monofunctional trimethylchlorosilane acts as a growth terminating agent or ‘chain⁓stopper’.
1949 . [ see monodentateadj. above]
1964 Brit. Med. Bull. XX. 91/1The carcinogenic action of a series of monofunctional ethyleneimines.
1971 Nature 10 Dec. 324/1 When the number of bonds was anything less than twelve, the bifunctional reagent was able to react with only a monofunctional stoichiometry.
1974 Analytical Chem. XLVI. 344 (heading)Potentiometric titration of monofunctional bases in ion exchanger-aqueous solution medium.
1861 Bumstead Ven.Dis. (1879) 401It is very rare for more than a single gland on one or both sides to suppurate specifically; and hence the virulent bubo is said to be ‘*monoganglial’.
1950 Proc. Amer. Soc. Sugar Beet Technologists VI. 156*Monogerm sugar beet varieties have not been developed in either Europe or America. Failure to develop such varieties is due to difficulties in detecting monogerm plants.
1971 Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 38/3 Modern monogerm varieties mean there is less worry about bolting than before.
1972 Nature 21 Jan. 136/2 Larks still destroy young seedlings, spaced scientifically and grown from monogerm seeds.
1914 W. B. Wright Quaternary Ice Age vi. 125We are bound to take our stand on the comparatively simple *monoglacial hypothesis until we can prove at least one interglacial period.
1961 L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 323/1The monoglacial theory considers the Pleistocene ice-sheet to have expanded and contracted in only one general movement without any substantial ‘interglacial periods’ of recession followed by advance.
1957 J. K. Charlesworth Quaternary Era II. xxxvi. 920Upholders of *monoglacialism are becoming fewer, and discussion is turning more and more upon the number of the epochs rather than upon the question of their existence.
1959 F. E. Zeuner Pleistocene Period ii. 54 (heading)Monoglacialism.
1914 W. B. Wright Quaternary Ice Age vi. 125The Cyprina Clays of Denmark..were referred by Geikie..to one of the interglacial periods, but..it was very justly held by the *monoglacialists that they might easily be of preglacial age.
1946 Antiquity XX. 10 Controversy raged with considerable acrimony between the monoglacialist and polyglacialist exponents of Pleistocene geology.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 458/2For a long time, a considerable controversy persisted between monoglacialists and polyglacialists, eventually to be conclusively won by the latter.
Ibid. 913/1For a long time, there was a minority belief in only one glacial epoch, the so-called monoglacialist school, and a few representatives still survive.
1888 Lancet 26 May 1043 The cirrhosis is at first *monolobular.
1929 H. E. Palmer Rep. Res. Activities 1928–9Inst. Res. Eng. Teaching (Tokyo) 9Each of these white spots is a word, that which is contained in a ring is not a word but a word-family... I propose to call the spots monologons and the rings monologemes (the termination on suggests the individual unit, and the termination eme suggests the group unit..). There are times however when..instead of the cumbrous ‘monologons or monologemes’ we may use the convenient common form *monologs.
1947 H. Bongers Hist. &Princ. Vocab. Control i. iii. 56The vocabulary of a language consists of:..Units neither more nor less than single words written without a break... These have been conveniently termed ‘monologs’.
1956 Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. XLII. 84For the three categories of Forel's classification the terms cold *monomictic, dimictic, and warm monomictic have been used by one of us [ sc. polar, temperate, and tropical] ..in a forthcoming extensive work on limnology. [ sc. Hutchinson]
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. vii. 438It is..proposed to use the term dimictic for any lake circulating twice a year; warm monomictic will be employed as a substitute for tropical, implying winter circulation above 4°C; and cold monomictic as a substitute for polar, implying summer circulation below 4°C.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 603/2The monomictic lake waters appear to be fully circulating in the dry season, but Deevey (1957) found that in August the temperature at the surface is 24°C versus 20°C at the bottom. [ of Lake Atitlán, in Guatemala]
1917 Jrnl. Geol. XXV. 243The inquiry gives considerable support to the belief that the *monomineralic rocks..are generated by the process of collection of crystals under the action of gravity.
1956 Mineral. Mag. XXXI. 120Specimens (24) to (28) inclusive are practically monomineralic rock specimens from which small, platey single crystals may be obtained.
1970 Nature 17 Oct. 258/2 The extreme composition range of the lunar sprays can be most readily explained by solar flares melting minute, essentially monomineralic particles on the lunar surface.
1865 Watts Dict. Chem. III. 1047*Monophane.
1903 Geikie Text-bk. Geol. vi. iii. iii. (ed. 4) 1170The families of *Monopleurids..and Hippuritids.
1843 Civil Eng. &Arch. Jrnl. VI. 330/2The advanced or *monoprostyle colonnade in the centre is 200 feet in length.
1955 IRE Convention Record viii. 132/2 A third method for generating both positive and negative errors simultaneously..is known as *monopulse radar, since all information on range and angle errors is generated from each single pulse. This very satisfactory name was proposed by Bell Telephone Laboratories engineers.
1965 D. K. Barton in R. S. Berkowitz Mod. Radar vii. 603 (heading)Operation of amplitude-comparison monopulse.
Ibid. 598In return for the added complexity in the receiving and antenna system, the monopulse radar offers reduction in tracking errors caused by target scintillation, an improved data rate.., and efficiency in overcoming thermal noise errors on distant targets.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. &Technol. VIII. 577/2An additional advantage of monopulse tracking as compared to conical scan is that no mechanical action is required in monopulse.
1970 Sci. Jrnl. May 46/1Modern radars, such as those of the chirp or monopulse types, need compression filters to convert long shallow pulses into tall brief ones and expansion filters to do the opposite.
1817 Keats Let. Mar. (1931) I. 13Your kindness affects me so sensibly that I can merely put down a few *mono-sentences.
1888 Teall Brit. Petrogr. 440*Monosomatic, a term applied to crystals and their inclusions when both belong to the same mineral species.
1875 Gentl. Mag. XV. 445His laugh—with an abrupt, short, *monosound—more like a short gasp or snort than a laugh.
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 291The *monospasms or protospasms of Jacksonian epilepsy.
1951 Whitby & Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) xvii. 293One such *mono-specific serum thus appropriately prepared will only agglutinate Br melitensis. [ ucella]
1964 A. L. Thomson NewDict. Birds 309/2Flocks may be mono-specific or composed of several species.
1970 Nature 22 Aug. 779 (caption) Digenea subarticulata..belongs to a genus formerly thought to be monospecific.
1974 Ibid. 1 Nov. 78/2The reactivity of the DeV reagent was abolished by previous incubation with a monospecific rabbit anti-human IgG serum.
1819 Pantologia, *Monostach caulis, in botany, a stem bearing a single spike.
1850 Ogilvie, *Monostachous.
1775 J. Jenkinson tr. Linnæus'Brit. Plants 254*Monostachyous . [ wrongly explained, ‘consisting of but one range or order’]
1856 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,Monostachyous.
1957 R. Watson-Watt Three Steps to Victory xxii. 128We had already erected a direction-finding hut so close to the others as to show that we were..confidently counting on wholly *monostatic working. That is to say we would obtain all the information required from a sector of our front by observations made at a single site accommodating both transmitter and receiver.
1973 Nature 9 Mar. 109/2 Some work has been reported in which a steerable monostatic radar has been pointed obliquely in several directions successively, so as to measure more than one velocity component.
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 119Charcot thinks..that in children the usual stigmata are often absent and the disease is ‘*monosymptomatic’. [ of hysteria]
1937 G. W. Allport Personality (1938) p. ix,Cultural determinism is one of the monosymptomatic approaches; it has a blind spot for the internal balancing factors and structural tenacity within personality.
1965 Monosymptomatic . [ see conversion hysteria]
1972 H. J. Eysenck Psychol. is about People iii. 111Her patients were all..suffering from serious and complex phobic anxieties; there were no monosymptomatic cases.
1962 P. H. A. Sneath in Ainsworth & Sneath Microbial Classification 291Special classifications are usually based on single characters, or on a series of single characters... Beckner..calls such groups monotypic, because the defining set of features is unique, but since monotypic has other meanings, *monothetic is a better term.
1965 Math. inBiol. &Med. (Med. Res. Council) iii. 82 (caption)Group Y is monothetic, and is subdivided monothetically.
1969 E. Mayr Princ. SystematicZool. iv. 83When the definition of the logicians—‘individuals sharing common characters’—was replaced by ‘members of a group having descended from a common ancestor’, a monothetic characterization of a taxon was no longer necessary.
1835 Shepard Min. I. p. xxxi,Pearl Kerate..1 Hexahedral..2 Pyramidal..3 *Monotomous.
1938 Engineer 3 June 615/1 Messrs. Butters Brothers are showing..a ‘*Monotower’ electric crane.
1953 Dock & Harbour Authority XXXIV. 88/2 The design of the mast for the monotower crane.
1963 Engineering 19 Apr. 532 During erection as a monotower up to 90 ft, the crane grows from the bottom.
1971 B. Scharf Engin. & ItsLang. xvi. 230Monotower cranes..consist of a latticed tower surmounted by a derrick crane.
1972 J. R. Illingworth Movement & Distribution Concrete vi. 84With monotowers, full circle slewing is obtained, but static base operation limits coverage to the area swept out by a particular jib length.
1939 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. III. 241 (table)Fully saturated triglycerides... *Mono-unsaturated-di-saturated glycerides.
1950 Analytical Chem. XXII. 1261/1Extinction coefficients..are reported for seventeen pure cis and trans mono⁓unsaturated and saturated acids, esters, and alcohols.
1965 E. D. Wilson et al.Princ. Nutrition (ed. 2) v. 35The quantity of the monounsaturated fatty acids in the average American diet matches that of the saturated ones, about 40 per cent.
1953 E. C. Dougherty in Parasitology XLII. 259/2Such an expression as ‘two-membered culture’ becomes ‘*monoxenic culture’.
1969 Oikos XX. 287 (heading) The monoxenic cultivation of some rhabditid nematodes.
Ibid. 288/1Some nematode species were studied under controlled conditions on monoxenic agar cultures.
1940 B. G. Chitwood in J. R. Christie Introd. Nematology ii. iv. 243/2Parasites of animals may also be classified according to the number of hosts necessary for completion of the life cycle. Species in which there is a single host are termed *monoxenous.
1962 W. P. Rogers Nature of Parasitism x. 219A specific parasite (sometimes called species-specific or monoxenous) can live on or in one species of host only.
1973 N. D. Levine Protozoan Parasites (ed. 2) i. 5/1A monoxenous parasite has only one type of host—the definitive host.
Ibid. 5/2The term monoxenous parasite is used by some authors for a parasite which is restricted to a single host species.
1865 Watts Dict. Chem. III. 1047*Mono-compounds. This term is applied to compounds containing 1 at. of the element specified.
1929 Chem. Abstr. XXIII. 3232If 352 parts of ethylene oxide is added to 3400 parts of 25% aq. NH3 at 10°, *monoethanolamine is obtained.
1959 Times Rev Industry Jan. 67/1 The CO2 removed by scrubbing with monoethanolamine is used as a purge gas.
1972 Materials & Technol. IV. xv. 516Since monoethanolamine reacts more readily with ethylene oxide than does ammonia, excess of the latter and careful control of the ethylene oxide concentration is essential for appreciable amounts of the mono-alcohol to be formed.
1860 H. Debus in Q.Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XII. 243 (heading)*Monoglycerides.
1926 G. D. Elsdon Edible Oils & Fats iv. 17The β monoglycerides have been prepared by using dichlorhydrin.
1954 E. W. Eckey Veg. Fats & Oils iv. 143An important practical application of alcoholysis of fats is the preparation of monoglycerides which are used in shortenings to improve their cake-making properties and as emulsifiers... Monoglyceride mixtures are prepared also as a first step in the manufacture of oil-modified alkyd resins, and in the preparation of certain detergents.
1972 Lipids VII. 433/1 Palmitic, stearic and oleic acids were the predominant fatty acids present in the monoglycerides.
1908 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XCIV. i. 587The composition of the thyminglucophosphoric acid is almost identical with that of heminucleic acid.., and may be considered to be a *mononucleotide.
1956 Nature 11 Feb. 271/1 Preparations or fractions of ribonucleic acid were hydrolysed in N potassium hydroxide to mononucleotides.
1968 H. Harris Nucleus & Cytoplasm iii. 55The mononucleotides released from this material by alkali hydrolysis are contaminated with other compounds.
1974 Nature 1 Nov. 75/2 The data show total 32P c.p.m. in the RNA and in the triphosphate termini as mononucleotides and pppNps released by KOH hydrolysis of that RNA.
1889 Nature 26 Sept. 539/2 On the constitution of *monosubstituted derivatives of camphor, by M. P. Cazeneuve.
1881 Watts in Nature 15 Dec. 148/1The saturated hydro-carbons..are first described; next their *mono-substitution derivatives.
1885 I. Remsen Org. Chem. (1888) 131The lactic acids..will be shown to be mono-substitution products of propionic acid.
mono-
word-forming element meaning "one, alone; containing one (atom, etc.)," from Greek mono-, comb. form of monos "single, alone," from PIE root *men- "small, isolated" (cognates: Greek manos "rare, sparse," Armenian manr "thin, slender, small," and perhaps English minnow).
ORIGIN: Greek , from monos alone, only, single: see -o-
☞ mono
mono-
\in pronunciations below, | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ . |mä(ˌ)nō also |mō(ˌ)nō or -_nə\
— see mon-
— see mon-
mono-
Prefix
- one
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos, “alone, only, sole, single”)
Derived terms
English words prefixed with mono-
Synonyms
前缀：mono- 表示“单个, 一个”
monarch 君主，独裁者（mon+arch统治者→一个统治者）
monogamy 一夫一妻制（mono+gamy婚姻）
monologue 独白（mono+logue说话→一个人说话→独白）
monopoly 垄断（mono+poly→独家卖→垄断）
monotonous 单调的（mono+ton声音+ous→一个声音→单调的）
前缀：mono- 单一、独(在元音前作mon-)
monosyllable 单音节词
monatomic 单原子的
monodrama 单人剧
monocycle 独轮脚踏车
monotone 单音，单调
monoplane 单翼飞机
monarch 独裁者
monoxide 一氧化物