Thus, the cell wall can be several layers thick, each layer being a sheet of linked peptidoglycan units. The Gram-positive bacterial cell wall is distinguished by having multiple layers of peptidoglycan sheets and is thus up to ten times the thickness of a Gram-negative bacterial cell wall.
noun. A parson holding his Bible. A parson holding his Bible. The definition of a parson is a member of the clergy, particularly in the Anglican tradition. An example of a parson is a Protestant minister.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Parsing. Parsing or syntactic analysis is the process of analysing a string of symbols, either in natural language or in computer languages, according to the rules of a formal grammar. The term parsing comes from Latin pars, meaning part.