Usually means: Gene cluster controlled by regulator.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word operon:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. operon: Merriam-Webster
  2. operon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. operon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. operon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. operon: Vocabulary.com
  6. operon: Wordnik
  7. operon: Wiktionary
  8. operon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. operon: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. operon: Dictionary.com
  11. Operon, The operon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. operon: Rhymezone
  13. operon: FreeDictionary.org
  14. operon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. operon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The operon, operon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. operon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Operon: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  7. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  8. The operon, operon: Medical dictionary
  9. Operon: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (operon)

noun:  A unit of genetic material that functions in a coordinated manner by means of an operator, a promoter, and structural genes that are transcribed together.

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