protease

Other forms of protease

plural

proteases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about protease

What does protease mean?

protease means "any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis".

How many syllables are in protease?

protease has 3 syllables: pro-te-ase. The stress falls on "pro". In IPA it is /ˈpɹoʊtiˌeɪz/.

What is another word for protease?

Close synonyms include peptidase, proteinase, proteolytic enzyme. 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 protease a common word?

protease 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.

What rhymes with protease?

1 word rhymes with protease. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.