What's the difference between apophony and gradation?

Apophony


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Gradation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
  • (n.) The act or process of bringing to a certain grade.
  • (n.) Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
  • (n.) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.
  • (n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
  • (v. t.) To form with gradations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (2) A gradation in steady-state cyclic guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cGMP) levels was observed in incubated slices of these tissues (inner medula greater than outer medulla greater than cortex).
  • (3) In a multivariate Cox model analysis, the independent correlates of long-term survival were emergent operation with cardiogenic shock (multivariate mortality rate ratio [RR] = 14.0), use of a postoperative intraaortic balloon pump (RR = 3.9), ejection fraction less than 50% (RR = 2.4), preoperative history of congestive heart failure (RR = 2.2), cardiopulmonary bypass time (RR = 1.4 for each 30-minute increment), uncorrected mitral regurgitation (RR = 1.5 for each increment of angiographic gradation), left main coronary artery narrowing (RR = 1.7) and diabetes (RR = 1.6).
  • (4) To compare this staining with the occurrence of NSE in serum, a histological staining index (HSI) was established by semiquantitative gradation of the staining.
  • (5) The structural differences are a result of adaptations which allow gradations in mechanical output to be achieved.
  • (6) Also examined was the gradation of attention effects on efferent modulation demonstrated in animals but never studied in humans.
  • (7) Results indicate support for the 'coping hypothesis' of post-injury psychological deficits, although effects consistent with a 'gradations of severity' hypothesis were also present.
  • (8) Immunoglobulin (Ig) A, IgG1, AND IgG2 were detected in the gastrointestinal secretions, with an apparent gradation in stability (IgA greater than IgG1 greater than IgG2) under the conditions investigated.
  • (9) Thus it appears that there is a gradation of radiation damage to the hypothalamic-pituitary axis which is dependent primarily on the dose received rather than the time interval after radiotherapy.
  • (10) Histopathologic changes corresponded to the clinical gradation of endophthalmitis, including progressive retinal necrosis.
  • (11) Adenosine triphosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase, acid phosphatase and nonspecific esterase show continuous gradations of enzyme activity.
  • (12) • "I made a mistake by allowing myself to get drawn into a great long argument about exactly what the gradations of rape were."
  • (13) The experimental evidence indicates that gap genes could be responsible for both of these effects: they activate the pair-rule system asymmetrically and, when first expressed, generate a sufficiently complex landscape of concentration peaks and gradations to provide the local cues needed to correctly position and align the pair-rule stripes.
  • (14) Cell kinetically, urothelial carcinomas yield similar gradations.
  • (15) Standardized gradations of pain and function showed improvement over-all, but significant impairment remained.
  • (16) The authors came to the conclusion on the usefulness of such method of identification of the stomatologic material shades and even of the intermediate gradations of these shades.
  • (17) This latter finding emphasizes the importance of recruitment and especially synchronization of motor unit activity to the gradation of output tension.
  • (18) The highest row of OHC stereocilia is known to show an orderly gradation in height along the length of the cochlea.
  • (19) The cells of the plasmacytic category also showed fine gradations from plasmablasts to typical mature plasma cells.
  • (20) Replacement of Phe-82 in yeast iso-1-cytochrome c with Tyr, Leu, Ile, Ser, Ala, and Gly produces a gradation of effects on (1) the reduction potential of the protein, (2) the rate of reaction with Fe(EDTA)2-, and (3) the CD spectra of the ferricytochromes in the Soret region under conditions where contributions from the alkaline forms of these proteins are absent.