What's the difference between angle and drift?

Angle


Definition:

  • (n.) The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
  • (n.) The figure made by. two lines which meet.
  • (n.) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
  • (n.) A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
  • (n.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses."
  • (n.) A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
  • (v. i.) To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.
  • (v. i.) To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.
  • (v. t.) To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A slight varus angle of 2.1 degrees became apparent.
  • (2) The optimal size for stimulation was between 5 degrees and 12 degrees (visual angle).
  • (3) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
  • (4) Contact angles of Silafocon A and PMMA were relatively uninfluenced by front surface radii between 7.7 and 8.85 and 7.3 to 8.8 mm, respectively.
  • (5) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
  • (6) Projection obliquity resulted in consistent underestimation of DPR angle.
  • (7) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
  • (8) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
  • (9) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
  • (10) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
  • (11) By measurement and analysis of the changes in carpal angles and joint spaces, carpal instability was discovered in 41 fractures, an incidence of 30.6%.
  • (12) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
  • (13) Bohler's angle may be reconstituted with apparent reduction of the posterior facet when projected laterally; however, Broden's and axial views show persistent widening and split of the posterior facet.
  • (14) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (15) These patients did not have narrow anterior chamber angles preoperatively, and several were aphakix with surgical iris colobomas.
  • (16) Seventy-eight patients presented optochiasmal arachnoiditis: 12 had trigeminal neuralgia; 1, arachnoiditis of the cerebellopontile angle; 6, arachnoiditis of the convex surface of the brain; and 3, the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome due to occlusion of the CSF routes.
  • (17) In this paper, we develop functions suggested by and regression fit to crystallographic data which allow three of these torsion angles, alpha (O3'-P-O5'-C5'), delta (C5'-C4'-C3'-O3') and epsilon (C4'-C3'-O3'-P), to be calculated as dependent variables of those remaining.
  • (18) An angle of 40 degrees or more was supposed to be a pathological kyphosis.
  • (19) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.
  • (20) Two homosexual men, 35 and 42 years old, had bilateral acute angle-closure glaucoma in association with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Drift


Definition:

  • (n.) A driving; a violent movement.
  • (n.) The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
  • (n.) Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
  • (n.) The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
  • (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged along
  • (n.) Anything driven at random.
  • (n.) A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like.
  • (n.) A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
  • (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
  • (n.) A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the agency of ice.
  • (n.) In South Africa, a ford in a river.
  • (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
  • (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
  • (n.) A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
  • (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
  • (n.) The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
  • (n.) The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
  • (n.) The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
  • (n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
  • (n.) The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
  • (n.) The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
  • (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
  • (v. i.) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps; as, snow or sand drifts.
  • (v. i.) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
  • (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
  • (v. t.) To drive into heaps; as, a current of wind drifts snow or sand.
  • (v. t.) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
  • (a.) That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Electromagnetic flow probes with an inner diameter of 2, 1.5 and 1 nm were used for studies on zero-line drifting and for calibration procedures in a series of rats and rabbits.
  • (2) It is microcomputer-based, and more easily set up and administered than the drifting-text procedure.
  • (3) The signals were processed digitally using three different algorithms: 1) simple linear regression (LR); 2) linear regression with drift correction achieved by adding to, or subtracting from the plethysmographic signal a term proportional to time (LRC); 3) Fourier analysis (FFT).
  • (4) Abducting saccades, which were slightly hypometric, displayed a marked postsaccadic centripetal drift.
  • (5) With these stringent criteria the rejection rate was 71.0% for group A records, 58.5% for group B and 44.5% for group C. The proportions of records with peak quality (no missing leads or clipping, and grade 1 noise, lead drift or beat-to-beat drift) were 4.5% for group A, 5.5% for group B and 23.0% for group C. Suggested revisions in the grading of technical quality of ECGs are presented.
  • (6) However, there is no certainty that both of Ainu and the people in Ueno derived from the same origin, or that genetic drift due to endogamy in this village took place.
  • (7) Efforts to obtain long term, reliable direct measurements of blood pressures have not been successful because of blood clotting impairing the function of sensors, baseline drift, artifacts on measurements, and health hazard-related catheterization.
  • (8) downward occupational and downward social drift, premature retirement and achievement of the expected social development.
  • (9) Both sides agree that antigenic diversity is advantageous although selectionists see benefits in individual mutations whereas the proponents of random genetic drift see the advantage in the parasite's capacity to tolerate diversity per se.
  • (10) Acuity for the direction of drift for these stimuli is of the same order of precision as orientation acuity for static or drifting gratings, and exhibits a meridional anisotropy that favours the principal meridians.
  • (11) The most parsimonious explanation of this result is that much genetic drift accompanied the establishment of local populations in cities and that there has been little subsequent gene flow.
  • (12) In contrast, in women, time period effects were a significant improvement on drift for melanoma of the trunk and lower extremity.
  • (13) We examined the effect of ethylene glycol (EG) concentration, in water, on O2 sensitivity, stirring effect, in vitro drift, in vitro response time, behaviour on the skin of newborn infants and in vivo response time.
  • (14) When inflation was allowed to drift from 2% to 4% in the 1970s, inflation expectations became unanchored altogether, and price growth far exceeded 4%.
  • (15) Diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform (DRIFT) spectroscopy was used to characterize the product of each step in the preparation of a silica-immobilized N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) active ester.
  • (16) She had attitude to burn, though, while the Bristol crew were content to drift, their work rate informed by the slow pace of their native city and by what might be called the spliff consciousness that determined not just the bass-heavy pulse of their music but the worldview of their lyrics, which often tended towards the insular and the paranoid.
  • (17) Let’s make sure it’s not on the usual plane of politics and point-scoring and pettiness that drifts away in the next news cycle.
  • (18) The ABO and Rh systems of the population in 26 residential units in the province of Ferrara were studied to detect the effect of genetic drift on the differentiation of gene frequencies.
  • (19) After the army, Page drifted between jobs and played in white power bands.
  • (20) Evidence of genetic drift of serologic types and of some increase in the prevalence of erythromycin-resistant strains has appeared.