DNA ligase either of two enzymes that join two double-helical molecules of DNA together to make a longer DNA molecule. ligase chain reaction a type of DNA amplification that uses DNA ligase to link chains and amplify the template containing the sequence in question.
Trent /trent/ [1 syll.] as a boys' name is pronounced trent. It is of Latin origin, and the meaning of Trent is gushing waters. Refers to the River Trent in England.Also nickname of Trenton. American Senator Trent Lott; football player Trent Dilfer.rent is a very prominent first name for males (#510 out of 1220, Top 42%) and also a very prominent surname for both adults and children (#1759 out of 150436, Top 1%). (2000 U.S. Census).
In most cases the modern surname is from a topographical name for someone who lived on the banks of any of the several rivers named Trent, in Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Dorset, for instance.n some cases the modern surname Trent may be locational in origin, from the village in Dorset so named. One John Trent was an early emigrant to the American colonies, leaving London on the Plaine Joan in May 1635, bound for Virginia.