(n.) The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
(n.) The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
(n.) Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
(n.) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes.
(n.) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
(n.) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each process has been linked to the regulation of cholesterol accretion in the arterial cell.
(2) From the regression coefficients it was calculated that, for the accretion of 1 g body protein, the dietary amino acid requirements were (mg) threonine 47, valine 53, methionine + cystine 36, methionine 19, isoleucine 43, leucine 78, phenylalanine + tyrosine 84, phenylalanine 41, lysine 68 and tryptophan 12.
(3) This must involve the additional accretion or synthesis of dipicolinic acid.
(4) Protein accretion in the regenerating liver preceded mitosis, but was accompanied by increases in RNA content and fractional rates of protein synthesis (ks).
(5) Aggregated proteoglycans inhibit mineral accretion in vitro.
(6) The magnitude of the changes in growth performance, tissue accretion rates and body composition elicited by pGH were independent of strain.
(7) Consequently, size of the exchangeable Ca pool, accretion rate and balance across bone were higher in these goats.
(8) On the other hand, there was no increase in percent protein accretion (both 15% of weight gain).
(9) The absolute rate of MT accretion was less in macrophages incubated with 25 microM- as compared with 50 microM-Zn2+, owing to decreased and increased rates of MT synthesis and degradation respectively.
(10) Previously, we observed that HSV infection causes a 40-fold increase in cholesteryl ester (CE) accretion in arterial smooth muscle cells due, in part, to a substantial decrease in CE hydrolysis.
(11) During the suckling period there is high hepatic protein accretion and the portal vein glutamine concentration is twice that in the adult, whereas hepatic vein glutamine concentration is similar between adult and suckling rats.
(12) Carcass protein accretion rate increased (P less than .001) up to approximately 150 micrograms of pST.kg BW-1.d-1, whereas lipid deposition decreased (P less than .001) with each incremental dose of pST.
(13) On d -22, 67 and 155, blood was sampled every 20 min for 8 h. Relative to LPN, HPN increased (P less than .01) ADG by 28%, carcass weight by 26% and accretion of carcass fat by 109% and carcass protein by 20%.
(14) However, much of the localization to the tumors was due to nonspecific factors, as evidenced by the considerable tumor accretion of the control antibody.
(15) Mithramycin at the low dosage had little effect on the rate of bone accretion.
(16) The analysis of chromatin, therefore, indicates that unligated repair sites are sites of protein accretion which block exonuclease III action.
(17) Retention of Ca and P in both groups was significantly below estimates of intrauterine accretion.
(18) Fractional accretion rates of total body 3-methylhistidine containing proteins (actin and myosin) were elevated 40% to 120% in rats fed a high-carbohydrate diet containing 10 or 100 ppm cimaterol for 1 week.
(19) The investigators' hypothesis that there would be more accretions on the side not involved in osseous surgery and pocket eradication was not supported in this study.
(20) Our previous studies with a 90Y-labelled antibody against carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) conjugated to the cyclic anhydride-DTPA (CA-DTPA) indicated that the accretion of 90Y in the bone may limit the application of 90Y-labelled antibodies for therapy.
Watermark
Definition:
(n.) A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.
(n.) A letter, device, or the like, wrought into paper during the process of manufacture.
(n.) See Water line, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(2) The single-celled organism has four "watermarks" written into its DNA to identify it as synthetic and help trace its descendants back to their creator, should they go astray.
(3) Shenhua Watermark project manager Paul Jackson said he stood by the company’s environmental assessments and he would not speculate on the outcome.
(4) From then on, different features were added over the years, including more use of colour, watermark portraits of the queen, highly detailed machine engravings, reflective foil patches and holographic strips.
(5) The dating app has rolled out verified profiles, which means now you’ll know if “celebrity” profiles on the app are for real – instead of having to rely on whether or not the profile picture is a heavily pixellated crop from a website, complete with watermark still attached.
(6) Clinton made the comments in a question and answer session following a keynote address to technology executives at the “Lead On” conference in Santa Clara, organised by Watermark .
(7) Employment levels by nationality Jonathan Portes, an economist of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, said all three factors would lead to a sharp fall in numbers and meant recent figures represented a “high watermark”.
(8) Shenhua passes on mining licence application for $1.2bn Watermark mine Read more At the time, Barnaby Joyce said it was “payback” for Windsor’s support for the minority Labor government.
(9) Thirty subjects engaged in maintenance and repair of moulds used for producing watermarks on paper were studied, along with 27 control subjects from the same paper mill.
(10) Greg Hunt approves $1.2bn Shenhua coalmine on Liverpool Plains Read more Joyce posted the comment on his Facebook page after news broke that the Chinese company Shenhua had been granted approval for the $1bn Watermark mine near Gunnedah , under 18 conditions the government says are among the strictest in Australia’s history.
(11) Farmers, community groups and former independent MP Tony Windsor have warned there will be a significant electoral backlash against the National party if the $1.2bn Shenhua Watermark mine project goes ahead on the so-called “food bowl” of the Liverpool Plains in northern New South Wales .
(12) Doubts over future of Shenhua's $1.2bn Watermark coalmine in NSW – reports Read more The NSW government still needs to approve the exploration licence extension for the project, which covers 35 square kilometres in rich farming land in the state’s north.
(13) They said his death was a watermark for post-revolutionary Tunisia , which lit the spark for the Arab spring when its popular uprising toppled the dictatorship in January 2011.
(14) The big difference is that the current watermark on notes, which features a faded-out image of the Queen, is likely to instead have a transparent image of Britannia.
(15) There are almost certainly more women on TV now than there were then, but in some ways the series still seems the high watermark of feminism on screen.
(16) The ghostly watermark preserves a tradition dating back to medieval Italy .
(17) In 1661, Stockholms Banco, the precursor to the Swedish central bank, issued Europe’s first banknotes, on thick watermarked paper bearing the bank’s seal and eight handwritten signatures.
(18) 2005 witnessed the high watermark of modern development communications.
(19) Tony Windsor, one of the independent MPs who held the balance of power during Labor’s last term in office, is considering a return to politics after the federal government approved the $1.2bn Shenhua Watermark coalmine in country New South Wales.
(20) ","booleanRole":"certainty","animation":{"duration":500},"vAxis":{"format":""},"hAxis":{"format":""},"isStacked":false,"width":460,"height":276},"state":{},"chartType":"ColumnChart","chartName":"Chart 3"} British political support for a new push on GM is currently at a high watermark, with both agriculture minister Jim Paice telling farmers in January that GM crops could massively help food production, and Labour's shadow environment minister, Mary Creagh, calling for more money for GM research.