(n.) A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Martin McAdam, chief executive of Aquamarine Power, one of a number of Edinburgh-based marine energy firms, said that choosing the city was "tremendous news" for his industry, which has been boosted by a series of green energy investment decisions by major global firms including Mitsubishi, Gamesa and Samsung Heavy Industries.
(2) "The GIB will build on this lead and enable businesses such as Aquamarine Power to leverage the significant private sector capital which will allow the UK's green energy sector to flourish," he said.
(3) Examples of this approach include Alstom who have invested in Brightsource (utility scale solar thermal) and Tidal Generation (tidal power); ABB is working with Aquamarine (wave power) and Trilliant (smart grid); Siemens with Tendril and a number of other smart grid companies; Monsanto with biofuels company Sapphire Energy .
(4) Martin McAdam, chief executive of Aquamarine, said publicising marine energy was crucial, as was accelerating investment in the industry.
(5) The bright sun and aquamarine water looked vaguely tropical, but the grimaces and boiled lobster colour of the competitors were a more accurate guide to temperature.
(6) Imagine a bald Jimmy Savile painted aquamarine, contorting his mouth into a gaping downturned maw.
(7) Her Majesty came in civvies, sporting a smart white silk brocade coat and flower trimmed hat, finished off with an enormous Brazilian aquamarine.
(8) Martin McAdam, chief executive officer of wave energy company Aquamarine Power, said there had been no consultation.
(9) "As a business, Aquamarine Power has been firmly neutral on the matter of independence," he said.
(10) The competition will be open to existing designs and established marine energy firms, including the Edinburgh-based firms behind the "sea snake" wave machine, Pelamis, and the "oyster" wave machine, Aquamarine power.
(11) It's a stretch that has at least 243 beaches of unparalleled beauty , and the kind of limpid aquamarine saltwater that has sent poets into raptures.
(12) After a series of commercial failures in Scotland’s nascent marine power industry, including the collapse of two wave power firms, Pelarmis and Aquamarine, Nova Innovation’s announcement was applauded by environmental groups.
(13) We ain’t been winning anything,” said Henry L Irvin Sr, an air force veteran in an aquamarine T-shirt bearing the slogan “Katrina – I am a survivor”.
(14) zumbido Slovenia The Soca valley, Kobarid From the small town of Kobarid you can follow the amazingly aquamarine Soca river upstream to the Kozjak waterfall.
(15) He is turned out nattily: an aquamarine shirt is co-ordinated with leather Oxford shoes; his hair spills out of a black newsboy cap and he wears dazzling white socks, as he always does.
(16) Rooms are small but striking – with a don’t-try-this-at-home colour scheme of dark chocolate, aquamarine and off-whites.
(17) Also to use wave power is a more powerful version of Aquamarine's existing Oyster machine , in which a lever hinged at the ocean floor is pushed back and forth.
(18) Aquamarine, which is behind a yellow near-shore device known as Oyster, is making about 30 staff redundant .
(19) The job losses were “a consequence of the considerable financial, regulatory and technical challenges faced by the ocean energy sector as a whole,” according to Aquamarine’s chief executive, John Malcolm.
(20) The study was carried out on samples of cotton textiles for children, two were dyed beige and aquamarine , one was white.
Topaz
Definition:
(n.) A mineral occurring in rhombic prisms, generally yellowish and pellucid, also colorless, and of greenesh, bluish, or brownish shades. It sometimes occurs massive and opaque. It is a fluosilicate of alumina, and is used as a gem.
(n.) Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of this study was to compare the effects upon marginal leakage of a number of dentine bonding agents: Gluma, Scotchbond, Topaz and an experimental material when used with a posterior composite resin, Occlusin.
(2) TOPAZ generates a narrative summary of the temporal events found in the electronic medical record of patients receiving cancer chemotherapy.
(3) We describe a program, called TOPAZ, that uses this three-step methodology.
(4) Buffett's MidAmerican Energy Holdings will take over Topaz Solar Farm, which is expected to produce enough power to run 160,000 homes when it is up and running in 2015.
(5) As an example of this approach, the author describes a program called TOPAZ that contains two temporal models that represent different temporal features of the clinical domain.
(6) Perched on the top deck of a Croatian sailing boat just outside Split, I was about to launch myself into the topaz blue of the Adriatic below.
(7) The problem of achieving satisfactory interaction between blood and prosthesis was not resolved in these studies, but we were sufficiently encouraged by the hemodynamic effects to look into the possibility of working with the temporary support system initially proposed by Moulopoulos, Topaz, and Kolff [3].
(8) Clones carrying the white and topaz eye color genes have been isolated from genomic DNA libraries of the blowfly Lucilia cuprina using cloned DNA from the homologous white and scarlet genes, respectively, of Drosophila melanogaster as probes.
(9) MidAmerican sealed the deal for Topaz on Wednesday, a day after the seller, First Solar, failed to secure a US government loan guarantee for the project.
(10) A unique feature of TOPAZ is its use of numeric and symbolic techniques to perform different temporal reasoning tasks.
(11) Greg Abel, chief executive officer of MidAmerican, said: "[Topaz] demonstrates that solar energy is a commercially viable technology without the support of governmental loan guarantees."
(12) Populational distribution of five genetic immunoglobulin markers (light chain allotype L1 and C gamma-allotypes H2, H3, H6 and H8) in minks of different coat color (Sapphire, Standard and Topaz) was studied.
(13) "Topaz-1" unit is intended for cleaning of immunological plates.
(14) The Topaz model 515 (Vitatron B.V.) is a dual sensor rate responsive pacemaker for single chamber stimulation.
(15) Restriction site and restriction fragment length polymorphisms involving both the white and topaz gene regions are found within and between populations of L. cuprina.