(n.) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc.
(n.) A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.
(n.) The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.
(n.) A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.
(n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Experiment 3, intermediate and upper-rank abacus experts performed a similar task to Experiment 1 under two instruction conditions.
(2) The results revealed that in the mental calculation condition, abacus experts showed a non-significant tendency towards greater interference in the left hand whereas the controls showed no hand difference.
(3) Instead it came to a knife-fight armed only with an abacus .
(4) The trypsin sensitivity expressed according to this index allowed the establishment of an abacus wherein several zones, A, B, C and D, define cell adhesion behaviour on different biomaterials.
(5) Paulson is alleged to have been allowed to stuff Abacus with mortgages doomed to default.
(6) All subjects had equivalent abacus performance ratings.
(7) Within nine months, more than 99% of the mortgages referenced by Abacus were in default, leaving Royal Bank of Scotland's Dutch subsidiary, ABN Amro, with an $840m bill as it had insured the derivative against failure.
(8) A task-demand variable was defined as a conjoint of mental arithmetic (3 min) and abacus arithmetic (30 min).
(9) In 2010, the firm was fined $550m by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US, and £17.5m by UK's Financial Services Authority over the Abacus sub-prime mortgage product and the activities of Fabrice Tourre, a London-based employee.
(10) In addition to offering simulation exercises for teaching purposes, this abacus provides the means for studying the instantaneous urodynamic situation (correspondences between cycle time points, symptoms, and effects of treatments) and determining the effect of various medicosocial events on the course of the bladder and sphincter dysfunction.
(11) Loss of function mutations in the abacus A (abaA) regulatory locus result in formation of aberrant conidiophores that fail to produce conidia.
(12) These data suggest that (1) learning experiences can affect the pattern of cerebral specialization through the change of approaches to perform cognitive tasks, and (2) the right hemisphere engages in mental calculation for the abacus experts whereas the left hemisphere contributes to mental calculation in ordinary people having no experience of abacus learning.
(13) Conidiophore morphogenesis requires regulatory interactions between the products of the stuA, bristle (brlA), and abacus (abaA) genes.
(14) The SEC's case against Goldman centres on a 2007 mortgage derivatives deal named Abacus, struck by Fabrice Tourre, a banker now based in London.
(15) In tissues treated directly with OsO4-pyroantimonate, antimonate reaction product was found chiefly in abacus bodies and secretory granules of the Golgi region and in secretory granules in the distal pole of the cell.
(16) Temperature shift experiments with an abaA14ts strain demonstrated that abaA+ function induced phialide formation by the aberrant abacus cells and was continuously required for maintenance of phialide function.
(17) All nutrient data were converted to bead units which were summed on an abacus until the meal requirements were met.
(18) The authors hope this abacus will be an attractive aide to the understanding of the complex function of the distal urinary tract.
(19) Only noise exposure tended to influence the performance of male students in abacus arithmetic.
(20) The results revealed that in the mental calculation condition, abacus experts showed greater interference effects on left hand tapping, whereas control subjects showed greater interference effects on right hand tapping (as compared to left hand).
Analytic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Analytical
Example Sentences:
(1) The deactivated columns had the residual silanols on the silica gel chemically inactivated to reduce the interaction with basic groups or analytes.
(2) Large emission intensity fluctuations are observed from analyte species in inductively coupled plasmas.
(3) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(4) The analytical model was the same as that adopted in our previous study on colorectal cancer screening (Tsuji et al.
(5) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
(6) The pump function of the heart (oxygen debt dynamics), the anaerobic threshold (complex of gas analytical indices), and the efficacy of blood flow in lesser circulation (O2 consumption plateau) were appraised.
(7) Recently developed analytical methodology permits large numbers of human urine samples to be analyzed and a wide variation is observed.
(8) Sets of specimens having quantitative linear inter-relationships for 25 analytes were prepared and used in a small survey of results with multi-channel analyzers.
(9) The normal anatomical position of the point of junction of the superficial cerebral veins with the superior sagittal and transverse sinuses of the rat was studied with an analytical mathematical method.
(10) The system is being exploited by population specialists, demographers, medical demographers and epidemiologists, both nationally and internationally, both for analytical purposes and as part of health monitoring systems.
(11) By using different immobilized and labeled antibodies, this method could easily be adapted for use with other analytes.
(12) Analytic therapy aims at converting transference as repetition of behaviour into recollection.
(13) On an analytical scale, electrophoretic methods in two dimensions or in capillaries are unsurpassed in resolution power.
(14) The calculation, based on analytical expression derived by Cowley, has been shown previously to give an almost quantitative description of kinematical diffraction from linear chain systems.
(15) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(16) The influence of derivative order and analytical wavelength range on the precision was investigated.
(17) For analytical purposes, irradiated dogs were segregated into groups according to their clinical status: clinically normal, hypocellular, or with acute non-lymphocytic leukemia.
(18) Analytical recovery from cotton gloves, solutions of foliar dislodgeable residues, and air-sampling filters was essentially complete.
(19) All statistics that validate the analytic method are reported.
(20) The analytes were rapidly separated on an affinity column packed with phenylboronate-bonded silica.