ligand

Etymology
Borrowed from, gerundive of.

Noun

 * 1)  A molecule or moiety (ion, functional group, or radical) that binds to another chemical entity to form a larger complex; as, especially:
 * 2) (coordination chemistry) Such an entity that binds to a central metal atom to form a coordination complex.
 * 3)  Such an entity that forms a complex with a biomolecule to serve a biological purpose.
 * 4)  A letter that orthography requires or allows to be ligated with one or more other letters to form a ligature, such as  in  or  in.
 * 1)  A letter that orthography requires or allows to be ligated with one or more other letters to form a ligature, such as  in  or  in.

Translations

 * Arabic: ربيطة
 * Bengali: লিগ্যান্ড
 * Catalan: lligand
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ligando
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ligandum
 * Ido: ligando
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: liogann
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 配位子, リガンド
 * Kazakh: лиганд
 * Khmer: លីកង់
 * Korean: 리간드
 * Malay: ligan
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:, ligante
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: лига̀нди
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: ลิแกนด์
 * Ukrainian: ліга́нд
 * Vietnamese: