What's the difference between dihedral and plane?

Dihedral


Definition:

  • (a.) Having two plane faces; as, the dihedral summit of a crystal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These variants, which yielded a robust illusion, included dihedral angles in place of the arrowheads of the classical pattern.
  • (2) Time histories of the dihedral angles and residue-residue cross-strand distances are used to study the behavior of the sheet structure.
  • (3) Comparison of the geometry of the engineered disulfide with those of naturally observed disulfides in proteins shows that the engineered bridge adopts a left-handed spiral conformation with a typical set of dihedral angles and C alpha-C alpha distance.
  • (4) Via Karplus-type equations, they are transformed into dihedral angles and a good agreement is found, allowing for a determination of the phi angle with a certain range of degrees.
  • (5) A combination of two procedures was used to search the conformational space for fentanyl, which included nested dihedral scans, geometry optimization and molecular dynamics simulation at different temperatures.
  • (6) The results of high resolution 1H and 13C NMR using dimethylsulfoxide and 2H2O as solvents, combined with a new method for determining dihedral angles phi and psi from 13C and 1H spin lattice relaxation times are presented.
  • (7) A total of 1244 experimental constraints were used, including 1120 distance constraints, 103 dihedral angle constraints and 21 hydrogen bond constraints.
  • (8) We have developed a method to obtain the dihedral angles for a low-energy structure of a protein, starting with the X-ray structure; it is applied here to examine the degree of flexibility of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor.
  • (9) Interproton distances were derived from crosspeak volumes in two dimensional Nuclear Overhauser Effect spectra, and dihedral angles were calculated from appropriate coupling constants.
  • (10) The orientation of the N-phenyl group with respect to the N-acyl moiety is essentially invariant with an approximately 90 degrees dihedral angle.
  • (11) The solution structures were calculated using 409 distance and 73 dihedral angle restraints.
  • (12) On the basis of the conformational energy (delta E, difference from the most stable conformational energy), which is calculated as a function of the dihedral angle (theta) between the two phenyl rings, biphenyl congeners can be classified into four groups with different conformations.
  • (13) A hydrated cobalt ion is found to coordinate to two N7 atoms of adjacent guanines, forcing these two guanines to destack with a large dihedral angle (32 degrees), in the dimer of the tetragonal form.
  • (14) The dihedral angle between the two benzenoid rings measures 1.4(1) degrees.
  • (15) The solution structure of insectotoxin 15A (35 residues) from scorpion Buthus eupeus was determined on the basis of 386 interproton distance restraints 12 hydrogen-bonding restraints and 113 dihedral angle restraints derived from 1H NMR experiments.
  • (16) It is concluded that weak attractive interactions between CH groups and S atoms are capable of stabilizing rotamers with unusually low (about 30 degrees) values of the SS-CC dihedral angle.
  • (17) beta-Breakers can be located automatically using a consensus approach based on algorithmic secondary structure assignment, solvent accessibility and backbone dihedral angles.
  • (18) It is shown that the dihedral angle omega of the Man alpha 1-6Man beta linkage exhibits low flexibility with a preference for the omega = 180 degrees conformation when residue D2 is present and high flexibility when this residue is absent.
  • (19) The majority of paperclips are shown to have tightly clustered sets of main-chain dihedral angles.
  • (20) Measurements on model compounds have been used to characterise a Karplus-type relationship between 3JCOCH and dihedral angles in sugar.

Plane


Definition:

  • (n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
  • (a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
  • (a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
  • (a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
  • (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
  • (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
  • (a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
  • (a.) To efface or remove.
  • (a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (2) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
  • (3) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
  • (4) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
  • (5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (6) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
  • (7) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
  • (8) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
  • (9) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
  • (10) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
  • (11) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
  • (12) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
  • (13) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
  • (14) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
  • (15) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
  • (16) The resistance is a complex function of the perfusion pressure and the cross-sectional area of the stenosis and cannot be accurately predicted from a single plane angiographic image.
  • (17) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
  • (18) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
  • (19) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di MarĂ­a had failed to board the plane.
  • (20) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.

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