(v. t.) To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
(v. i.) To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin.
(v. i.) To join one's self.
Example Sentences:
(1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(2) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(3) The mutant set constructed has either AAU or AAC as codon three in the gene with each possible adjoining 3' base.
(4) A second pattern of representation of body movements, the supplementary motor area (SMA), adjoined the rostromedial border of M-I.
(5) In order to study the interactions between serotonergic mechanism and electrical stimulation of the mesencephalic central gray substance, rats were trained to lever-press for terminating aversive electric stimuli applied at the Periaqueductal gray and adjoining tectum of the mesencephalon.
(6) This well differentiated mass within the medulla adjoined a dedifferentiated endophytic extension of the tumor into the fourth ventricle which had seeded into the cerebellar cortex and the cauda equina.
(7) Pro-IL-1 beta is found dispersed in the cytoplasm, and there are no basic amino acid residues or other commonly recognized processing sites adjoining the mature N-terminus.
(8) That is, the primary auditory area receives projections not only from adjacent lateral and medial cortical regions but also from adjoining rostral and caudal cortical regions.
(9) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
(10) A sharply circumscribed, vascular, connective tissue mass which replaced the cortex of several adjoining cerebral gyri is described.
(11) In order to investigate the neural encoding of glutamate in the primate, recordings were made from 190 taste responsive neurons in the primary taste cortex and adjoining orbitofrontal cortex taste area in macaques.
(12) The Stanhope chief executive, David Camp, said: "Stanhope is working in partnership with the BBC to deliver a publicly accessible mixed use remodelling of these iconic buildings and redevelopment of the adjoining land.
(13) The owner of a DIY shop adjoining the former Maoist centre‚ now an Algerian restaurant‚ said his father used to own the building in question, but sold it shortly before Balakrishnan's commune opened in 1976.
(14) The nonexposed population was divided into two control groups the first group (N1) includes 37,990 people living in the mass treatment villages and the other group (N2) consists of 43,445 people living in the adjoining villages without mass treatment.
(15) In two cases we also observed criteria which could indicate that these tumors were malignant: the tumors had infiltrated the adjacent spleen and adjoining lymphnode or displayed a destroyed capsula.
(16) Adjoining his office, in the green room where Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, Hollande settled into a lush dining chair, more elaborate than the rest around the meeting table.
(17) Electron microscopy discloses the presence of sensory nerve endings within the parts of the tunica adventitia adjoining the preponderantly elastic zone of the internal carotid artery.
(18) The adjoining galleries blaze with colour from enamel and gold, jewels and tapestries, stained glass and ceramics.
(19) The intrinsic connections are disposed predominantly in a horizontal or oblique direction and within the laminae of origin, but there are fibres passing between adjoining laminae and between layers III and V and VI.
(20) The Blairs' property portfolio already includes a £3.6m townhouse and an £800,000 adjoining mews house in Connaught Square, London, two flats in Bristol and the constituency home in Trimdon, Co Durham, which Blair bought when he was elected MP for Sedgefield in 1983.
Coterminous
Definition:
(a.) Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the presence of 3'-OMeGTP, nearly homogeneous populations of 3'-coterminal elongation complexes were positioned at the first G residue of the template.
(2) The two remaining RNAs are leftwardly transcribed and are 5' and 3' coterminal.
(3) The most prominent in vitro translation products of ORF-206 are the full-length p206 and a shorter N-coterminal 150-kDa protein.
(4) B19 differed from other parvoviruses in the initiation of all transcripts at a strong left side promoter (p6) and the absence of a functional internal promoter; the presence of short 5' leader sequences of about 60 bases and very large introns for RNAs encoded by the right side of the genome; two separate transcription termination sites, in contrast to cotermination at the far right side of the genome for other parvoviruses; the probable utilization by three transcripts of a variant polyadenylation signal (ATTAAA or AATAAC) in the middle of the genome; and the abundance of two unique transcripts from the middle of the genome which did not code for capsid proteins.
(5) We found that the rate of ADR1 protein synthesis increased 10- to 16-fold within 40 to 60 min after glucose depletion, coterminous with initiation of ADH2 transcription.
(6) Three coterminal proteins of differing sizes and three subdomains of the individual molecules can be recognized.
(7) Evidence is presented here that all three HCMV GCR genes are transcribed during infection, that they are transcribed as two sets of 3'-coterminal mRNAs, and that their transcription is restricted to the late phase of infection.
(8) The two virion sense transcripts were 3' coterminal at nucleotide 1114 but had 5' termini at nucleotides 2682 and 163 respectively.
(9) It is coterminous with a spatial distribution of wealth and power, which is sometimes too simply called “the north-south divide”.
(10) The P and V proteins are amino coterminal and have 164 amino acids in common.
(11) We consider that this region contains 12 genes, which are expressed by mRNAs which have separate promoters, but may share 3'-termination sites, so that all but two mRNAs belong to one of four 3'-coterminal "families": 79% of the sequence is considered to be polypeptide coding.
(12) In the AcMNPV, a nested set of seven overlapping transcripts ranging from 2.2 to 5.3 kb was found, each with coterminal 3' ends.
(13) When the coterminous United States was divided into three horizontal tiers of states, we found a strong effect of geography on age at onset.
(14) The true late viral mRNAs are 3' coterminal with the 3.1-kb mRNA.
(15) The truncated RNA (Po RNA) is 147 to 148 residues long and is coterminal with the 3' ends of intact S20 mRNAs.
(16) The major product of 147 residues is obtained in 60 to 70% yield, is coterminal with the 3' end of the substrate, and is identical to an mRNA fragment previously characterized in vivo (G. A. Mackie, J. Bacteriol.
(17) In addition, their genome organization and expression strategy, which involves the synthesis of a 3'-coterminal nested set of mRNAs, are comparable.
(18) The mRNAs from the five ORFs were found to coterminate at a single site downstream of ORF 5.
(19) His implication that progressivism and the coalition are synonymous or coterminous is simply untrue, and even cheap.
(20) The distribution of 15,145 deaths from NP cancer over the years 1950-1979 revealed clustering in the 119 ESRs that was not detected in analyses of distribution by the 48 states, 506 state economic areas or 3,056 counties or combinations of counties of the coterminous United States.