(a.) Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychometric tests including evaluation of attention, concentration, psychomotor activity, critical flicker frequency, reaction time, Archimedean spiral, mood and affectivity, may add valuable information about a drug's psychotropic and pharmacodynamic properties.
(2) When large arrays of strange attractors are coupled diffusively through one of the variables, chaotic systems become periodic and form large archimedean spirals or concentric bands.
(3) Icosahedral deltahedra and 11 networks with 432 symmetry, constructed from Platonic and Archimedean solids, are among the structures whose construction is feasible, now that these junctions can be made.
(4) The common regularity of this interreorganization is transition across the right-left form of the Archimedean spiral.
(5) The permeability of procaine across axon membranes and the effect of formaldehyde (FA), crotonic aldehyde (CA) and glutaraldehyde (GA) on the compound action potential of frog sciatic nerve was studied by utilizing a non-archimedean (NA) model of the relaxation process.
Archimedes
Definition:
(n.) An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.
Example Sentences:
(1) With Schirren's circle the obtained mean value was even higher (+ 52%) in comparison to the "real" volume by Archimedes' principle with a random mean error of 19%.
(2) The weighing of the human body under water is an application of Archimedes' law.
(3) Archimedes said: "Give me a place on which to stand and lever long enough, and I will move the world."
(4) The MHRA said: "There is one current licence for sodium thiopental [held by Archimedes Pharma UK].
(5) Archimedes' law of buoyancy has been extended to the preoperative bedside assessment of volume differences between breasts, whatever their cause.
(6) A method is described for determining the number of bacteria in a solution by the use of a machine which deposits a known volume of sample on a rotating agar plate in an ever decreasing amount in the form of an Archimedes spiral.
(7) Here you will get the same mean value as in Archimedes' principle with a standard mean error of only 9%.
(8) They were then exposed surgically and their volume (by litres) determined according to Archimedes' principle.
(9) Then there are Pick-Up Artists, men who spent the teenage years everyone tells you are golden shut in their rooms thinking about sex and gaming, until one of them leaped from his bed like a socially awkward Archimedes and realised he could merge the two.
(10) A set of matrix algebra routines have been written, as BASICV procedures, for the Acorn Archimedes microcomputer.
(11) Tests evaluated were Archimedes spiral, digit span memory, critical flicker fusion, stabilometry and tachistoscope.
(12) The volume determined via testes sonography was set in relationship to the "real" volume according to Archimedes.
(13) Archimedes said that once the drug entered the complex chain of medical supplies it would not have known where it was eventually sold.
(14) He describes the marvel of a water-raising screw made using a new method of casting bronze – and predating the invention of Archimedes' screw by some four centuries.
(15) A direct comparison of both measurement methods showed a random mean error of 7% for the principle of Archimedes, whereas with sonographic determination of the volume a mean error of 15% must be taken into account.
(16) Repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) on each test indicated that critical flicker fusion, stabilometry and tachistoscope contributed more to the overall sensitivity of the battery than did digit span memory and Archimedes spiral.
(17) Last year, California and Arizona illicitly obtained supplies of the drug, manufactured in Austria, from a UK wholesaler, Dream Pharma , which had obtained it from the British licence holder, Archimedes Pharma UK.
(18) Harry Enten, our polling Archimedes, has written up five reasons why the national polls still matter , even though the outcome is likely to live in those state polls.
(19) The bone density values for the 24 bone specimens measured by the new method show a good correlation (r=0 with 94) with results obtained by application of Archimedes' principle.
(20) A computerised ward monitoring system based on Archimedes PC's at each bedside is under development for the PICU at Killingbeck Hospital in Leeds.