nick

nick

[nik]

(biochemistry)

The absence of a phosphodiester bond between adjacent nucleotides in one strand of duplex deoxyribonucleic acid.

(geology)

knickpoint

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

nick

[IRC] nickname. On IRC, every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes the user's real name or login name, but is often more fanciful. Compare handle.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Nick

 

a transverse semicircular groove on the bottom of a printing type. The nick controls the position of each character within a composed line.

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