Fret Definition
(physics) Fluorescence resonance energy transfer, which is a type of the Förster phenomenon where one or both of the partners in the energy transfer are fluorescent chromophores.
Origin of Fret
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From Middle English freten, from Old English fretan (“to eat up, devour”), from Proto-Germanic *fraetaną (“to devour”), corresponding to for- + eat. Cognate with Dutch vreten, fretten (“to devour, hog, wolf”), Low German freten (“to eat up”), German fressen (“to devour, gobble up, guzzle”), Danish fråse (“to gorge”), Swedish fräta (“to eat away, corrode, fret”), Gothic (fraitan), - (fra-itan, “to devour”).
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Middle English < Old French, from the verb freter, probably from the Latin frictō, frequentive of fricō (“I rub”). See friction.
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Middle English freten from Old English fretan to devour ed- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English interlaced work from Old French frete
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Latin fretum (“strait, channel”)
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Origin unknown
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