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Alteration of templet, probably from Frenchtemplet, diminutive of temple(“a weaver's stretcher”), variant of tempe, from Latintempora(“temple”). Alteration of second syllable due to analogy with plate. Cognate with Faroesetamba(“to stretch out, relax”), Icelandicþamb(“a stretched, bloated, or extended belly”).
2002, S. Lottin et al., “Thioredoxin post-transcriptional regulation by H19 provides a new function to mRNA-like non-coding RNA”, in Nature, volume 21, number 10:
Classically, the functional product of coding genes is a protein whose synthesis is directed by an mRNA-template.
1994, Howard I. Chapelle, Boatbuilding, →ISBN, page 368:
Only that part of the floor timber that bears on the planking and keel need be templated; […]
To provide a template or pattern for.
2003, Yu Wang et al., “Synthesis and characterization of a new layered gallium phosphate templated by cobalt complex”, in Journal of Solid State Chemistry, volume 170, number 1, →DOI:
Metal phosphates that are templated by transition-metal complexes are rare.
