(n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's a tribute from the historic Apollo theater in Harlem, New York City: Touré (@Toure) Photo: The Apollo Theater in Harlem remembers Nelson Mandela.
(2) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
(3) "Replaying the glory days of Apollo will not advance the cause of American space leadership or inspire the support and enthusiasm of the public and the next generation of space explorers," he wrote.
(4) Sure, America did it almost 50 years ago but with each passing year Apollo seems to have less relevance to the modern exploration of space.
(5) Haydock spoke to a colleague who was living on a boat, stayed there to see whether she liked it, then started looking on a website called Apollo Duck .
(6) The test protocol was identical to that used in the first manned Skylab mission and the latter Apollo flights.
(7) Measurements of urinary hydroxylysine glycosides indicate that considerable collagen degradation occurred during the reentry into the earth's atmosphere of the American astronauts of the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
(8) The postflight phase of the Apollo MEED mycology attempts to identify survival according to exposure to specific quantitative space flight factors, while the second phase of studies identifies qualitative change other than cell survival [57].
(9) On Saturday, the National Theatre's production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time will be performed at the Apollo Theatre in London, modified for people with autism, learning disabilities and sensory or communication needs.
(10) The Apollo guys , some of them hadn't had time to think about what this was going to be like.
(11) "Apollo 13 [the unsuccessful third mission to the moon in 1970] did not stop the space race," he said.
(12) Kate Bush plays 22 nights at the Hammersmith Apollo, London in August and September.
(13) On the Apollo missions, lunar dust got everywhere – the crews inhaled it and got it in their eyes, and it wreaked mechanical havoc – and on Mars the dust is even more problematic, because it is highly oxidised, chemically reactive, electrically charged and windblown.
(14) Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot, said that walking on the Moon gives you an instant global consciousness, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it, that international politics look so petty.
(15) Tests were carried out on pocket mice to ascertain their tolerance to elevated oxygen pressures alone and to a combination of hyperoxta and heat in excess of that expected during the flight of the mice on Apollo XVII.
(16) Unlike the quick three-day Apollo flights to the moon, Ladee will need a full month to reach Earth's closest neighbour.
(17) Nasa showed how a stupendous goal could be achieved, amazingly fast, if the will and the resources are there,” said Professor Martin Rees, former head of the Royal Society and another member of the Apollo group.
(18) We constantly upgrade our phones, connect with each other through Facebook, pay our bills online, demand the most advanced medical treatments available when we get sick and drive cars that have more computing power than the system that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon .
(19) Global Apollo programme seeks to make clean energy cheaper than coal Read more The backers of the Global Apollo Programme , who also include Unilever CEO Paul Polman, economist Lord Nicholas Stern, MP Zac Goldsmith, former chair of the Financial Services Authority Lord Adair Turner and former cabinet secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell, urge the world’s nations to back the plan ahead of a crunch climate summit in Paris in December.
(20) Neil Armstrong , the Apollo 11 commander and first human to walk on the moon, died last August.
Asteroid
Definition:
(n.) A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lipase from Geotrichum asteroides appears more resistant to high temperatures and pH changes than the enzyme from Penicillium sp.
(2) This strain of the organism fits a pattern of susceptibility that is rare among N asteroides isolates in general and has been called the type 5 pattern, described as a resistance to broad spectrum cephalosporins, ciprofloxacin, and all aminoglycosides except amikacin.
(3) Within 18-24 h asteroid bodies consisting of an amorphous centre with fine radiating needle crystals were seen.
(4) The study deals with the phagocytosis of Nocardia asteroides (strain Weipheld) and the subsequent intracellular proliferation in peritoneal macrophage cells.
(5) Chalky white colonies, 0.5 to 1.0 mm in diameter, that were subsequently identified as N. asteroides grew well on the BCYE media.
(6) This must be regarded as an antigen-antibody precipitate corresponding to the "asteroid body" of previous authors.
(7) All six N. brasiliensis and six N. otitidis-caviarum were susceptible to gentamicin and minocycline, while all 15 N. asteroides were not.
(8) Microtubules and centrioles were not found in asteroid bodies, although a centriolar field was present in 1 giant cell close to the plasma membrane, completely unrelated to the asteroid body.
(9) Complications are unusual, but of the ones that do occur, infection, particularly with Nocardia asteroides, and fibrosis are the most common.
(10) The somewhat fortuitous isolation of Nocardia asteroides and its significance are discussed.
(11) The pathogenicity of Nocardia asteroides and other strains of different Nocardia species against chicken embryos was investigated.
(12) An acute suppurative abscess characterizes the lesions of N. asteroides.
(13) The inner solar system is filled with dust between the planets, called the zodiacal cloud, which starts out at the asteroid belt and slowly drifts towards the sun.
(14) Ominously, researchers have already discovered that there must be ten times as many potentially dangerous asteroids out there with sizes of the order of tens of metres as previously thought.
(15) With N. asteroides, the direct plating method gave equivocal results.
(16) The organism identified as Nocardia asteroides resisted to sulfonamide and cotrimoxazole but sensitive to chloramphenicaol and streptomycin in vitro.
(17) These findings and clinical observations suggest that inhibition of N. asteroides by neutrophils may be important in vivo.
(18) Evidence for the possible developmental pathway of the Schaumann body is provided by morphological changes within myelinoid figures intimately related to the asteroid body.
(19) Two and one half years later N. asteroides pneumonia recurred and resulted in death from respiratory failure.
(20) The official citation for the asteroid reads: "Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was a Scottish writer best known for the Culture series of science fiction novels; he also wrote fiction as Iain Banks.