CHROMOPHORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chromophore mean? 

• CHROMOPHORE (noun)
  The noun CHROMOPHORE has 1 sense:

1. the chemical group that gives color to a molecule

  Familiarity information: CHROMOPHORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHROMOPHORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The chemical group that gives color to a molecule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("chromophore" is a kind of...):

chemical group; group; radical ((chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule)

Holonyms ("chromophore" is a part of...):

dye; dyestuff (a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair)

 Context examples 

By itself, this technique does not lead to the identification of a substance, but analysis of the spectrum (absorption versus wavelength) can help identify the presence of specific chromophores in the molecule.

(Photometry/Spectrum Analysis, Visible Light, NCI Thesaurus)

A dye that consists of a carcinogenic nucleus that is attached to chromophores by azo-linkages and is broken down in vivo to form the free carcinogenic nucleus.

(Carcinogen Containing Dye, NCI Thesaurus)

The vertebrate cascade starts with the absorption of photons by the photoreceptive pigments, the rhodopsins, which consist of a membrane embedded chromophore, 11-cis-retinal, and a G-protein-coupled receptor, opsin.

(Phototransduction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Elinafide contains two neutral chromophores joined by a cationic linker and is capable of bis-intercalation at the TpG and CpA steps of the DNA hexanucleotide.

(Elinafide, NCI Thesaurus)