Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.
  • noun An apparatus for obtaining a graphic tracing of the form of the body.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who conforms; one who complies with established forms or doctrines.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry any of a set of stereoisomers characterised by a conformation that corresponds to a distinct potential energy minimum
  • noun biology A particular folded state or conformation of a protein.
  • noun A person who conforms.

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Examples

  • Petabyte data equals about, say 10kB data per structure, maybe less if we use InChI and neglect conformer info, 100.000.000.000 structures.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Egon Willighagen 2008

  • Petabyte data equals about, say 10kB data per structure, maybe less if we use InChI and neglect conformer info, 100.000.000.000 structures.

    "The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete" Egon Willighagen 2008

  • This code will be incorporated into OpenBabel under the GPL in the coming months, making fast and accurate SMILES-to-3D conformer generation available to the open source community for the first time.

    Archive 2007-10-01 glyn moody 2007

  • This code will be incorporated into OpenBabel under the GPL in the coming months, making fast and accurate SMILES-to-3D conformer generation available to the open source community for the first time.

    FROG Hops into the Open Source Commons glyn moody 2007

  • The average person in the pews is a follower and a conformer and not a reformer.

    From Pastor to Bastard...What a Trip! 2007

  • MCCAIN: All my life I have been iconoclastic -- and not a conformer, whether it would be in high school, or the Naval Academy, or in the Navy.

    Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life 2004

  • The Rowan stretched, easing stiff muscles as she swung her legs off the conformer.

    The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

  • [19] "Les docteurs de la loi sont unaniment d'accord sur l'obligation de conformer ses actions à ce qui est indiqué dans les traditions attribuées au Prophète," Ibn Khaldoun, vol.ii. p. 465.

    The Faith of Islam Edward Sell

  • Cowper-Temple clause, at the least: and so far as he is a convinced conformer, he is often compelled to strain, far beyond the meaning of the parable, the principle of letting the wheat and the tares grow together.

    Recent Developments in European Thought Various

  • So far as the musician is a personal non-conformer and also a teacher (even if not a church organist), he is often compelled into a tacit agreement with the

    Recent Developments in European Thought Various

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