glutamate

From glutamic acid +‎ -ate.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡluː.tə.meɪt/, [ˈɡlʉː.tə.mɛɪ̯t]
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlu.tə.meɪt/, [ˈɡɫu̟.ɾə.meɪ̯t]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlʉː.tə.mæɪt/, [ˈɡɫʉː.ɾə.mæɪ̯t]

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glutamate (plural glutamates)

1. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of glutamic acid.
2. (neuroscience) The anion of glutamic acid in its role as a neurotransmitter.
   • 2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 5, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:

     At a synaptic level, the axon terminal having to repeatedly release glutamate is the lecturer droning on repetitively; the moment when the postsynaptic threshold is passed and the NMDA receptors first activate is the dendritic spine finally getting it.

• IPA^(key): /ɡly.ta.mat/

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glutamate m (plural glutamates)

1. glutamate

• “glutamate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.