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n. A polymer that consists of two, three, or four monomers.

n. A compound intermediate between a monomer and a polymer, normally having a specified number of units between about five and a hundred.

n. A molecule composed of a small number of linked monomer units; a short polymer; -- compounds called oligomers have less than one hundred monomer units and usually less than thirty. Oligomers of increasing length are called dimer, trimer, tetramer, pentamer, hexamer, heptamer, octamer, nonamer, decamer, etc. In colloquial laboratory jargon, they may also be referred to as nine-mer, ten-mer, eleven-mer, twelve-mer, etc., especially for oligomers of greater than eight units.

"I concluded that H3 and H4 must form a dimer, and I thought I might crystallize and solve the structure of this unique histone oligomer."

heptadecamer    monomer    eicosamer    dimer    hexadecamer    tetramer    pentamer    hexamer    octadecamer    undecamer   

dimer    trimer    tetramer    pentamer    hexamer    heptamer    octamer    nonamer    decamer    nine-mer   

oligomeric