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Nomenclature name: alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "AMPA."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AMPA | English | Aminomethylphosphonic acid | Chemistry |
AMPA | French | Acide aminométhyl phosphorique | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: AMPA |
| Specialty definitions using "AMPA": alpha-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic Acid ♦ Receptors, AMPA, Receptors, Kainic Acid. (references) |
| "AMPA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "AMPA" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "AMPA": AMPA-kainate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
receptors ampa | 2 |
ampa receptor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AMPA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | récepteur AMPA-kaïnate (AMPA-kainate receptor). (various references) | ||||
German | AMPA-Kainat-Rezeptor (AMPA-kainate receptor). (various references) | ||||
Italian | recettore AMPA-cainato (AMPA-kainate receptor). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ampaay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AMPA": pampa. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AMPA": campagna, campagne, campaign, campaigned, campaigner, campaigners, campaigning, campaigns, campanile, campaniles, campanili, campanologies, campanologist, campanologists, campanology, campanula, campanulas, campanulate, champac, champacs, champagne, champagnes, champaign, champaigns, champak, champaks, countercampaign, countercampaigns, elecampane, elecampanes, hippocampal, lampad, lampads, lampas, lampases, pampas, rampage, rampaged, rampageous, rampageously, rampageousness, rampageousnesses, rampager, rampagers, rampages, rampaging, rampancies, rampancy, rampant, rampantly, rampart. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-m-p" | |
-1 letter: ama, amp, map, pam. | |
-2 letters: aa, am, ma, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-m-p" | |
+1 letter: abamp, pampa, praam. | |
+2 letters: abamps, impala, lampad, lampas, madcap, mayhap, napalm, pajama, palmar, pampas, panama, paramo, plasma, praams, sampan, tampan. | |
+3 letters: amphora, ampulla, apogamy, champac, champak, chapman, impalas, lampads, madcaps, manpack, mantrap, napalms, packman, pajamas, palmary, palmate, palmyra, pampean, panamas, pangram, paramos, patamar, plasmas, pyaemia, pyjamas, rampage, rampant, rampart, roadmap, sampans, tampala, tampans, timpana, tympana. | |
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