(biochemistry) A biopolymer of glucose produced by enzymes of certain bacteria; used as a substitute for blood plasma, and as a stationary phase in chromatography.
dextrin
dextrin
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a range of oligomers of glucose, intermediate in complexity between maltose and starch, produced by the enzymatic hydrolysis of starch; used commercially as adhesives.
hendrix
indexer
indexer
noun
(computing, programming, .NET) A special property of a class allowing objects of the class to be accessed by index as though they were arrays or hash tables.