adenosine diphosphate

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   an ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage

   SynonymsADP

   Broadernucleotide

Questions about adenosine diphosphate

What does adenosine diphosphate mean?

adenosine diphosphate means "an ester of adenosine that is converted to ATP for energy storage".

What is another word for adenosine diphosphate?

Close synonyms include ADP. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adenosine diphosphate a common word?

adenosine diphosphate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.