Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a polymer lacking structural regularity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disconnected; without arrangement or order: in grammar, opposed to syntactic: as, an atactic sentence.
- Same as
ataxic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Of or pertaining to
ataxia - adjective chemistry Describing any
regular polymer or othermacromolecule in which the orientation of thesubunits is random
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking motor coordination; marked or caused by ataxia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[a– + Greek taktikos, of order; see tactics.]
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Examples
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Prof. Natta extended the research conducted by Ziegler on organometallic catalysts to the stereospecific polymerization, thus discovering new classes of polymers with a sterically ordered structure, viz. isotactic, syndiotactic and di-isotactic polymers and linear non branched olefinic polymers and copolymers with an atactic (or sterically nonordered) structure.
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