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Definition of deme in English: demenoun diːmdim 1A political division of Attica in ancient Greece. 德谟（古希腊阿提卡政区） Example sentencesExamples - So in the summer of 431, a Spartan army invaded Attica, laying waste to Acharnai, a rural deme to the north-west of Athens, within sight of the city walls.
- The Peloponnesian army under King Archidamus reached the borders of Attica and encamped at the deme of Acharnae.
- Life Xenophon, son of Gryllus, from the Athenian deme (rural district) of Erchia, was born into a wealthy but politically inactive family around 430 BC.
- Two portraits of Socrates frame the Symposium, one painted by Aristodemus, the good thief, the best of the deme, the other by Alcibiades, the bad thief.
- 1.1 An administrative division in modern Greece.
德谟（现代希腊阿提卡行政区）
2Biology
A subdivision of a population consisting of closely related plants, animals, or people, typically breeding mainly within the group. 〔生〕同类群，混交群体 Example sentencesExamples - Historically, migration can take ancestors to any deme within the population.
- We have studied different aspects of DNA sequence polymorphism within a single deme drawn from a population that has experienced a range expansion.
- The effect of genetic hitchhiking on neutral variation is analyzed in subdivided populations with differentiated demes.
- However, much of the theoretical work since has focused on populations subdivided into discrete demes.
- Several of these still capture the essence of island-model subdivision, that is, greater relatedness within than between demes, while others collapse to the unstructured case.
- In particular, if a sample is taken from such a population, levels of polymorphism within and between demes will be the same.
OriginFrom Greek dēmos 'people'; sense 2 is an extended use dating from the 1930s. Rhymesabeam, agleam, beam, blaspheme, bream, deem, downstream, dream, esteem, extreme, gleam, hakim, kilim, meme, midstream, Nîmes, régime, scheme, scream, seam, seem, steam, stream, supreme, team, teem, theme, upstream Definition of deme in US English: demenoundēmdim 1A political division of Attica in ancient Greece. 德谟（古希腊阿提卡政区） Example sentencesExamples - The Peloponnesian army under King Archidamus reached the borders of Attica and encamped at the deme of Acharnae.
- So in the summer of 431, a Spartan army invaded Attica, laying waste to Acharnai, a rural deme to the north-west of Athens, within sight of the city walls.
- Two portraits of Socrates frame the Symposium, one painted by Aristodemus, the good thief, the best of the deme, the other by Alcibiades, the bad thief.
- Life Xenophon, son of Gryllus, from the Athenian deme (rural district) of Erchia, was born into a wealthy but politically inactive family around 430 BC.
- 1.1 An administrative division in modern Greece.
德谟（现代希腊阿提卡行政区）
2Biology
A subdivision of a population consisting of closely related plants, animals, or people, typically breeding mainly within the group. 〔生〕同类群，混交群体 Example sentencesExamples - Historically, migration can take ancestors to any deme within the population.
- The effect of genetic hitchhiking on neutral variation is analyzed in subdivided populations with differentiated demes.
- We have studied different aspects of DNA sequence polymorphism within a single deme drawn from a population that has experienced a range expansion.
- In particular, if a sample is taken from such a population, levels of polymorphism within and between demes will be the same.
- Several of these still capture the essence of island-model subdivision, that is, greater relatedness within than between demes, while others collapse to the unstructured case.
- However, much of the theoretical work since has focused on populations subdivided into discrete demes.
OriginFrom Greek dēmos ‘people’; deme (sense 2) is an extended use dating from the 1930s. |