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What does hairpin mean?

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Noun
  1. A pin or fastener for the hair.
  2. (biology) A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.
  3. (chiefly attributive) A very tight bend in a road.
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We therefore encapsulated hairpin ribozymes inside 200-nm vesicles to test for surface effects.
The vesicles were immobilized on supported bilayers and single-molecule analysis was performed for DNA molecules and hairpin ribozymes.
He hits the gas and cranks the wheel hard to the left, throwing his rented car into a four-wheel power slide around a muddy hairpin curve.
Master muddy downhills, hairpin turns and unexpected obstacles with the help of cyclocross pro Gina Hall.
The car was in eleventh place when it hit the wall at the difficult bottom hairpin and was forced to withdraw as unrepairable.
Starlings had the pickings from the grass one side of the hairpin road, fieldfares the other.

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