(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.
Physicist
Definition:
(n.) One versed in physics.
(n.) A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical principles; -- opposed to vitalist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Americans Stuart Freedman and Jon Clauser and French physicist Alain Aspect were the first to verify quantum entanglement experimentally.
(2) The functions of medical physicists and their roles in consolidation of the relations between medicine and natural sciences and engineering are discussed.
(3) To quantify the effect of these activities on the accuracy of computed doses, five physicists and two dosimetrists performed computerized dose calculations on five applications chosen randomly from our patient files.
(4) The attacks had clear echoes of the unsolved assassination in January this year of one of their colleagues, particle physicist Masoud Alimohammadi.
(5) Higgs said his discovery, while crucial, was just one element in a worldwide research effort to find the elementary particle that binds matter together, which began in 1960 and only concluded in 1967 when the US physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg finally completed the theory.
(6) Almost all elements of psychotic thought including beliefs in disembodied spirits, synchronicity (meaningful coincidences), and the possibility of non-material, actions-at-a-distance can be found among respected Western philosophers, psychiatrists, religious leaders and quantum physicists.
(7) It will enhance the technologists's position among his colleagues and he will be able to communicate intelligently with the three-member team--the radiation oncologist, the clinical physicist, and the radiation therapy technologist.
(8) In this cataloguq he does not only mention the memorial and prize medals of ophthalmologists but also those of physicists, physiologists, surgeons, opticians who have made a name in the field of ophthalmology.
(9) By focusing on Spock and Kirk as novices finding their footing, and putting their gut-vs-logic dynamic at the heart of the film, Abrams gives non-followers plenty to hang on to, but also pays homage to familiar Trek tropes: Bones says: "I'm a doctor, not a physicist!
(10) In May this year, Iran hanged 26-year-old Majid Jamali Fashi, who the authorities alleged was responsible for the assassination of Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, a particle physicist killed in January 2010.
(11) With so many physicists and engineers it could hardly be otherwise.
(12) Even in 1975, Elena Bonner Sakharova was able to accept the prize on behalf of her husband, the physicist Andrei D Sakharov.
(13) During his stay at the University of Prague, he was influenced by the famous people of his time, such as Einstein (physicist), Mach (physicist and psychophysicist), Lorenz (behavioral scientist), Popper (philosopher), Schlick (physicist and philosopher), Hering (physiologist), and others.
(14) A second area involves the requirements now being developed for waste management, which also challenges health physicists by insisting upon safe environments for workers who handle waste products while mandating confirmation and cleanup of hazardous wastes.
(15) Particle physicists rank their confidence in new results on a scale in which a "three sigma" signal counts as an "observation", and a more robust five sigma signal claims a concrete discovery.
(16) The big bang was originally hypothesised by Belgian priest and physicist Georges Lemaître.
(17) Sometimes Cern physicists record some very unusual-looking events, he added.
(18) A proverb of the Buddhist religion often quoted by physicist Richard Feynman encapsulates the whole discussion, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."
(19) But Gianotti, along with Incandela and five other Cern physicists, did win the most lucrative prize ever established in science , the special fundamental physics prize.
(20) I am also very glad to share it with Dave Wineland because he’s a fantastic physicist and to be in his company is certainly a great pleasure for me and great recognition.