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TMV

American  
  1. tobacco mosaic virus.


TMV British  

abbreviation

  1. tobacco mosaic virus

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Neil Sobin, Quartermaster’s founder and CEO, said one of the benefits of working with TMV is Hadjipateras’s deep roots in the maritime sector.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

Backed by Prologis and the American Bureau of Shipping, the TMV Logistics fund will tap in to growing interest in supply-chain efficiency and resilience.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 2026

Knowledge of the virus’s structure allowed other scientists to forge ahead in the early days of molecular biology and use TMV as a model to help break the genetic code.

From Nature Jul. 20, 2020

A signature sentence “Excitedly, I pilfered Bernal and Fankuchen’s paper from the Philosophical Library and brought it up to the lab so that Francis could inspect the TMV X-ray picture.”

From The Guardian May 9, 2016

Hugh Huxley came to my rescue by offering to teach me how to set up the X-ray camera for photographing TMV.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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