Usually means: Cage-like structure trapping molecules.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. clathrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. clathrate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clathrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clathrate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clathrate: Vocabulary.com
  6. clathrate: Wordnik
  7. clathrate: Wiktionary
  8. clathrate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. clathrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. clathrate: Dictionary.com
  11. Clathrate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Clathrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. clathrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. clathrate: Rhymezone
  15. Clathrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. clathrate: FreeDictionary.org
  17. clathrate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. clathrate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. clathrate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clathrate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. clathrate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. clathrate: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clathrate)

adjective:  (biology) Having a lattice-like structure.
adjective:  (chemistry) Of an inclusion complex: in which molecules of one compound are enclosed within the crystal structure of another.
noun:  (chemistry) A clathrate compound.

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