(n.) Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.
(n.) Disposition of the mind; propensity; as, the aptness of men to follow example.
(n.) Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.
(n.) Proneness; tendency; as, the aptness of iron to rust.
Example Sentences:
(1) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(2) The ApU analogues ApT, Apcl5U, Apbr5U, Apa5U and Apno5(2)U were synthesized with the aid of ribonuclease U2 starting from 2',3'-cyclic Ap and the respective uridine derivatives.
(3) The current CEO, the aptly named John Boss, took home $5.4m in salary and other compensation in 2015.
(4) We describe immunofluorescence microscopic studies of the amebal-plasmodial transition (APT) in Physarum polycephalum.
(5) The most promising clinical application of APT so far has been the monitoring of gastric emptying.
(6) Damage which is apt to be most cytotoxic is probably less effective as an inducer of skin cancer than is more subtle damage, which is tolerated but can initiate malignant transformation.
(7) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.
(8) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .
(9) A patient with an anal lesion, however, was more apt to develop small bowel disease simply because the small bowel was a far commoner site of Crohn disease in this series.
(10) Although most vitreous seeds were necrotic tumor cells, some were almost intact tumor cells which were apt to be situated along blood vessels.
(11) Recurrences, which are apt to be more common after PTA versus carotid subclavian bypass, are easily managed with repeat dilatation.
(12) The busy atmosphere and routine of a hospital is apt to induce apprehension in a patient about to have a surgical operation.
(13) Expression of the APT gene is under the control of lambda bacteriophage PL promoter.
(14) We are apt to know what the current situation is after ten years have passed.
(15) The author considers the loss of opportunities in life as an apt criterium of the vital impact of different permanent health impairments.
(16) Applied potential tomography (APT) or electrical impedance imaging has received considerable attention during the past few years and some in vivo images have been produced.
(17) The stronger the smoking habit, the less apt the smoker is to quit or maintain a nonsmoking status.
(18) Members of the medical profession were considered particularly apt to accurately and reliably report their personal experience with lower back pain and were therefore selected for this survey.
(19) The groups with low right-left ear ratios were less likely to have a somatosensory disorder than the other two groups, but they were more apt to have a language problem.
(20) As our understanding of the biochemical and cellular mechanisms of APT improve, a number of key clinical issues may be clarified: (1) risk factor assessment for APT, (2) criteria for early diagnosis of APT, and (3) improved therapeutic approach to patients with APT.
Tendency
Definition:
(n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
Example Sentences:
(1) The technique is facilitated by an amazingly low tendency to bleeding.
(2) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(3) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(4) EI showed a tendency to drop from week 20 to week 40 in the men and a tendency to increase from week 20 to week 40 in the women.
(5) They presented their clinical observations on 4 brothers from the 'G Family' who shared a constellation of findings with a generalised tendency to midline defects.
(6) A tendency of reduced forepaw grasping ability was seen in lead-treated rats during the end of the lead exposure.
(7) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(8) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
(9) The general tendency of gradual CBF reduction from the pedicle to the distal end of all the flaps was observed.
(10) There was a remarkable tendency to newborns weighting more than 2000 g and a duration of pregnancy longer than 35 weeks.
(11) Radiographically the bone cyst distinguishes itself by its central localisation in the metaphysis, where as the giant cell tumor has an excentric position in the epiphysis with a tendency of extending into the metaphysis.
(12) The use of the first oversulfation method provides slightly oversulfated derivatives which exhibit strong anticoagulant properties and may constitute effective antithrombotic drugs with no bleeding tendency, a side effect perhaps related to a high rate of sulfation.
(13) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
(14) The results may be due to stronger social reinstatement tendencies in females than in males: Higher levels of social motivation facilitate behavioral performance when the task is easy (straight runway) and inhibit it when the task is difficult (V-shaped runway).
(15) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(16) The transient shortening of WBCLT was succeeded by a tendency to prolongation of the lysis time.
(17) As in the protein sample, a tendency for the cis-proline residues to have the DOWN pucker was observed, but the effect was less pronounced.
(18) These data suggest that, in addition to platelet activation, abnormalities of blood clotting, and particularly reduction of antithrombin III, may play a role in the thrombotic tendency associated with homocystinuria.
(19) Mitomycin C extravasation produces a painful indolent ulcer that does not have any tendency to heal.
(20) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.