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Definition of Rearrangement

1. Noun. Changing an arrangement.

Definition of Rearrangement

1. n. The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.

Definition of Rearrangement

1. Noun. The process of rearranging. ¹

2. Noun. (chemistry) A rearrangement reaction. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rearrangement

1. arrangement [n -S] - See also: arrangement

Medical Definition of Rearrangement

1. A restructuring; e.g., in a molecule. Amadori rearrangement, a rearrangement that occurs in cross-linking reactions seen in collagen and in protein glycosylations; e.g., conversion of N-glycosides of aldoses to N-glycosides of the corresponding ketoses. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Rearrangement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Inequalities in Statistics and Probability: Proceedings of the Symposium on by Yung Liang Tong (1984)
"rearrangement inequalities compare the value of a function of vector arguments ... The classical example of a rearrangement inequality is the well- known ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Assumption 2 is more attractive, since the degree of rearrangement required is relatively small. However, if II is the structure in solution, it is a little ..."

3. Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918 by Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1920)
"rearrangement OF THE CONSTITUTION. The session of 1919 of the Constitutional Convention was held for the purpose of taking action upon the report of a ..."

4. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1904)
"They prove that this important transformation is most decidedly a real intramolecular rearrangement, which may occur in some cases with the oxime, ..."

5. A Treatise on Metamorphism by Charles Richard Van Hise (1904)
"MOLECULAR rearrangement. Molecular rearrangement alone means passage from ... As an example of molecular rearrangement due to change of temperature may be ..."

6. Accounting Theory and Practice by Roy Bernard Kester (1918)
"Expenditure for rearrangement of Machinery In connection with expenditures made in the rearrangement of machinery within the plant for various purposes, ..."

7. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"The rearrangement Within the Medulla Oblongata of the Structures Continued Upward from the Spinal Cord.—At the level of the rostral border of the first ..."

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