(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.
Mathematician
Definition:
(n.) One versed in mathematics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(2) That will offer insufficient challenge for capable mathematicians and fail to provide an adequate platform for further study.
(3) Cheers Phil Climate Audit is the web site run by Steve McIntyre, a Canadian mathematician peppering Jones with requests for his data.
(4) It began with a frustrated blogpost by a distinguished mathematician.
(5) His parents were mathematicians and worked on Manchester University's Mark I, one of the earliest computers.
(6) Dominic Cummings' high-octane thesis breathlessly takes in Thucydides and Dostoevsky, evolutionary biology and the writings of modern mathematicians, as it argues – almost in passing – that billions of pounds are being wasted in schools and higher education in a world where ministers are barely in control.
(7) With his schoolboyish, ginger hair and glasses, he looks just how you might expect a mathematician to look - in fact, he is a juggler, too.
(8) These data analysts are often physicists or mathematicians, whose skills are not developed for the study of society at all.
(9) Mathematicians are concerned that current A-level questions are overly structured and encourage a formulaic approach, instead of using more open-ended questions that require advanced problem-solving."
(10) Photograph: Science and Society Picture Library The most prolific mathematician of all time, publishing close to 900 books.
(11) "It is unreasonable that mathematicians should be so successful in this," Wright said.
(12) You don't have to be much of a mathematician to see the attraction of those figures: 70% of $2.99 is $2.09; 10% of a paperback priced at $9.99 is 99 cents.
(13) After fighting hard for farmers’ rights in EU negotiations, mathematician and former agriculture minister Laimdota Straujuma became the first female prime minister in January 2014.
(14) It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two.
(15) McIntyre clearly doubted the statistical techniques being employed by the climatologists, and felt that, as a trained mathematician, he could do better despite his ignorance of climate science.
(16) By then, he had been spotted by a college contemporary, Howard Smith , a mathematician with whom Briggs played chess, who was to become head of MI5 in the 1970s.
(17) Staying power 'My job is vital … and I love the mental stimulation I get' David Shrubbs, 71, a teacher at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, said: "I've been teaching maths for 49 years and regard my job as vital for this country, as it's lacking in mathematicians."
(18) This is the nub of what I am going to call, because I've always secretly wanted to be a mathematician, the "Birmingham Liberty Paradox".
(19) The point we should derive from Snowden’s revelations – a point originally expressed in March 2013 by William Binney, a former senior NSA crypto-mathematician – is that the NSA’s Utah Data Center will amount to a “turnkey” system that, in the wrong hands, could transform the country into a totalitarian state virtually overnight.
(20) In this paper we describe a computer model developed jointly by mathematicians and medical consultants.