ORTHOPHOSPHATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orthophosphate mean? 

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

1. a salt of phosphoric acid

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORTHOPHOSPHATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A salt of phosphoric acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

inorganic phosphate; orthophosphate; phosphate

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

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "orthophosphate"):

calcium phosphate (a phosphate of calcium; a main constituent of animal bones)

sodium orthophosphate; sodium phosphate (phosphate of sodium; used as a laxative to cleanse the bowels)

 Context examples 

This protein is involved in the removal of orthophosphate from both flavinoids and proteins.

(Low Molecular Weight Phosphotyrosine Protein Phosphatase, NCI Thesaurus)

It catalyzes the synthesis of gamma-glutamylcysteine from glutamate and cysteine in the presence of ATP with the formation of ADP and orthophosphate.

(Gamma-Glutamylcysteine Synthetase, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)