(n.) The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.
(n.) Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a statement to the UN's general assembly last summer, Ramgoolam said: "The dismemberment of part of our territory, the Chagos archipelago – prior to independence – by the then colonial power, the United Kingdom, in clear breach of international law, leaves the process of decolonisation not only of Mauritius, but of Africa , incomplete."
(2) Bay of Bengal map The Mergui archipelago on the Thai-Myanmar border is one of the more secluded parts of the Bay.
(3) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
(4) New-Hebrides Condominium, an archipelago in the South Pacific, is a country with a special socio-political environment, due to the duality of its French-British regime.
(5) Shelters in Denmark's Funen archipelago Along with my guide, Jakob, I was on the Danish island of Tåsinge, part of the South Funen archipelago that lies just south of Fyn, the large island sandwiched between the Jutland peninsula and Zealand (which hosts Copenhagen).
(6) Meanwhile volumes two and three of The Gulag Archipelago appeared to less public acclaim than volume one, but confirmed the uniqueness and immensity of that vast enterprise.
(7) Everything changed last September when a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coastguard ship near the Senkaku islands, an uninhabited but disputed archipelago.
(8) David Connell Senior research fellow, UK Innovation Research Centre, University of Cambridge, and Chairman, Archipelago Technology • I hope the new £61m National Graphene Institute at Manchester will reap some rewards ( Letters , 5 December).
(9) Pentecost largely escaped the severe damage inflicted on much of the archipelago by the cyclone, he said.
(10) Vanuatu disaster: follow the Guardian's reporter on the ground in the wake of cyclone Pam Read more Little is still known of conditions on the ground in outlying islands after Pam wiped out the archipelago’s wider telecommunications network.
(11) Wednesday's demonstration flight was mostly carrying representatives from Indonesian airlines, which are rapidly expanding to serve a burgeoning middle class in the sprawling archipelago where air travel between islands is a quicker alternative to ferries.
(12) Indonesia is an archipelago, the largest in the world, stretching 3,200 miles from east to west.
(13) The author gives the results of an entomological survey in neo-caledonian archipelago (New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands), november-december 1972.
(14) Drosophila differens, endemic to Molokai, Drosophila planitibia of Maui, and Drosophila silvestris and Drosophila heteroneura from the island of Hawaii are chromosomally homosequential species that presumably have colonized the newer islands of the Hawaiian archipelago by sequential founder events.
(15) The coast guard in southern Japan's Okinawa prefecture said nine or 10 activists had made an unauthorised landing on Uotsuri Island, part of the small archipelago known in Japan as Senkaku and in China as Diaoyu.
(16) Today the archipelago’s sparsely populated islands remain pristinely beautiful while some of its underwater landscapes present scenes of utter devastation.
(17) Autochthonous human samples of the three westernmost islands of the Canarian Archipelago, La Palma, Gomera, and Hierro, have been analyzed for eight red cell polymorphic enzymes.
(18) The thyroid function has been subject of study on a casual and significant sample consisting of 189 individuals living in Filicudi, Alicudi and Panarea, the smallest of the inhabited islands in the Eolian archipelago.
(19) This date fits with the geological history of the archipelago, which has witnessed the sequential rise and erosion of many islands during the past 70 million years.
(20) ID815996 The Swedish archipelago Facebook Twitter Pinterest A ferry arrives at Branno.
Contiguous
Definition:
(a.) In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuclei in contiguous groups of cells were modeled and analyzed.
(2) These data imply that the viral subgenomic mRNAs are composed of leader and body sequences which are non-contiguous on the genome.
(3) Close proximity and contiguity of the cut surfaces were important for such growth to occur.
(4) The vessel number, the vessel diameter and the distance intervening between contiguous vessels were measured.
(5) Genes tfdD and tfdE are contiguous in the tfdCDEF operon, whereas the corresponding genes, clcB and clcD, of the clcABD operon, are known to be separated by a long open reading frame of unknown function.
(6) The human histone gene-bovine papillomavirus episome is therefore a viable system for studying cell cycle-regulated histone gene expression under conditions where control is not influenced at the site of chromosomal integration by cis-acting elements of genes normally not contiguous.
(7) We have applied random mutagenesis over short contiguous residue tracts ('windows') within an active peptide (the alpha-peptide of beta-galactosidase) such that all window residues are replaced simultaneously.
(8) The procedure was repeated for each contiguous section level of the liver.
(9) A contiguous sequence of 25 residues on the surface of the 74 kDa human plasma metal-binding transport protein histidine-rich glycoprotein (HRG) has been identified as a bioactive metal-binding domain.
(10) One group, tested on delayed response with stimuli and responses spatially contiguous, solved the task at once, whereas the other group, trained with actual stimuli and responses spatially discontiguous, attained criterion after errors.
(11) Postmortem examination showed the tumor to be composed of both malignant schwannoma and angiosarcoma and to have arisen from contiguous neurofibromas in portal tracts.
(12) The Pasteurella haemolytica leukotoxin determinant is composed of four contiguous genes encoded on the same DNA strand and denoted lktCABD, in the order of their genetic organization.
(13) Magnetic resonance measurements of left ventricular volume and ejection fraction based on measurements of area and length in a single oblique plane containing the long axis of the ventricle were compared with measurements made by summing the areas of the chamber in multiple contiguous slices.
(14) A contiguous panel of markers permitted mapping of the deletion to 17p12-p13.1, the same chromosomal region for which loss of alleles has been shown in tumor specimens from patients with colon cancer, and the same region to which the p53 gene has been mapped.
(15) The deformities resulting from premature closure of a coronal, sagittal, metopic, or lambdoid suture can be predicted by the following observations: (1) cranial vault bones that are prematurely fused act as a single bone plate with decreased growth potential; (2) asymmetrical bone deposition occurs mainly at perimeter sutures, with increased bone deposition directed away from the bone plate; (3) sutures adjacent to the stenotic suture compensate in growth more than those sutures not contiguous with the closed suture; and (4) enhanced bone deposition occurs along both sides of a nonperimeter suture that is a continuation of the prematurely closed suture.
(16) In these cases of low-grade oligodendroglioma, MR was believed to be superior to CT in providing information needed for radiation therapy planning because of its ability to distinguish tumor and adjacent edema (considered tissue at risk for containing microscopic tumor) from contiguous normal brain.
(17) The structural ovalbumin DNA sequences are not contiguous and are separated by multiple "intervening regions" in native chicken DNA.
(18) Common predisposing factors in this older group of patients include infection at contiguous foci, tumors in close proximity to the central nervous system, or fistulous communications with the central nervous system.
(19) Ten freshly extracted teeth which had carious pulpal exposures and periapical lesions contiguous with the root apex were placed inside an anaerobic chamber and the apical 5 mm of the root canals cultured.
(20) First-episode (N = 62) and chronic, multi-episode (N = 24) schizophrenic patients and healthy comparison subjects (N = 42) underwent MRI of the whole head in a sequence that provided 63 contiguous brain slice images.