Definition of "peptide" in İngilizce

noun

1. (organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds consisting of various numbers of amino acids in which the amine of one is reacted with the carboxylic acid of the next to form an amide bond.

2. (chemistry) The peptide bond itself.

3. (euphemistic, usually construed as plural) performance-enhancing drugs, often a synthetic peptide compound