homolog

• homologon (archaic)
• homologue

Borrowed from French homologue, From Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos, “agreeing, of one mind”), equivalent to homo- +‎ -log.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒməlɒɡ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːməlɑːɡ/, /ˈhoʊməlɑːɡ/

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homolog (plural homologs)

1. Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
   2. (linguistics) A phoneme, morpheme, or word shared by two languages or dialects, via cognation or naturalization.
   3. (biology, genetics, medicine) One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry, or the peptides or proteins that they encode; the counterpart gene or protein in another taxon evolved from a common ancestor (molecularly it may be either identical or similar).

      Hyponyms: ortholog, paralog

      TP53 is the human homolog of murine Trp53.

      • 2008, Chan-seok Jeong, Minho Lee, Dongsup Kim, edited by Ratko Magjarevic, World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, Volume 1‎^[1] (Biomedical Engineering), →ISBN, page 171:

        Detecting remote homolog by protein similarity network.

      • 2012, Phillip Smith, Thomas MacDonald, Principles of Mucosal Immunology, page 407:

        A more complex mechanism is used by Vibrio cholerae toxin and by the homolog heat-labile enterotoxin secreted by ETEC strains.

   4. (organic chemistry) A member of a homologous series.
   5. (cultural anthropology) A belief, practice, concept, or artifact that has a counterpart in another culture.

• hog loom, hog-loom, hogloom

From Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos, “agreeing, of one mind”).

• IPA^(key): /homoˈloːk/

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• Hyphenation: ho‧mo‧log

homolog (strong nominative masculine singular homologer, not comparable)

1. homologous (all senses)

• “homolog” in Duden online

Borrowed from French homologue.

• Hyphenation: ho‧mo‧log

homolog

1. homologous

• “homolog”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu