(a.) Of or pertaining to astronomy; in accordance with the methods or principles of astronomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(2) Since 1930 Dr. Rakowiecki has started as self-taught astronomy studies becoming soon one of seven most eminent Polish astronomers.
(3) Askap will also help astronomers investigate one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: dark energy.
(4) As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
(5) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
(6) These changes will not arrive with an astronomical bang, of course, but will appear with stealth.
(7) Speaking at the Young America’s Foundation conference in Washington, he said: “When I was younger, a trillion was an astronomic number.
(8) Estimates of what we will be able to see will improve over the next few days as astronomers track the comet's progress.
(9) We've tried very hard to get women and black astronomers and engineers into the programme.
(10) Those found around the nearest sun-like stars are the most interesting to astronomers.
(11) Between the 10-year projection of a half million FTE nursing shortage, astronomical medical care costs and a lingering recession, nursing administrators have no option but to make difficult choices in resource allocation.
(12) Astronomer Jose Madiedo, who leads the Midas project at the University of Huelva, saw footage of the strike soon after the telescopes' software had processed the impact on 11 September 2013.
(13) Astronomers have spotted the most distant galaxy ever seen after a faint ray of light struck a telescope on a volcano in the middle of the Pacific.
(14) The site also allows astronomers to study objects such as the Magellanic clouds, which can only be seen in the skies of the southern hemisphere.
(15) People sitting out in the desert aren’t talking amongst themselves about how, ‘Joe Bloggs received a mandatory sentences for a ‘three strike’ burglary, I better not do the same thing’.” Collins said the legislation would compound recidivism rates for Aboriginal people in WA jails, rates which he said were already “astronomically high”.
(16) China's giant telescope represents its big ambitions for science Read more Scientists would start debugging and trials of the telescope, said Zheng Xiaonian, deputy head of the National Astronomical Observation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which built the telescope.
(17) But at the same time it just proved how significant Meerkat has become.” Meerkat’s rise has been astronomical.
(18) Astronomers rank the planets by scoring them on three different scales.
(19) "The odds of you as an individual being hit by this are around one in 20 trillion," Dr Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society told the BBC.
(20) The astronomical profits these companies and their cohorts continue to earn from digging up and burning fossil fuels cannot continue to haemorrhage into private coffers.
Flexure
Definition:
(n.) The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.
(n.) A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
(n.) The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
(n.) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
Example Sentences:
(1) This ranged from heads inclined at a slight angle to the tail through to complete flexure.
(2) This report presents a patient with a tumor of the splenic flexure invading the diaphragm, greater curvature of the stomach, splenic hilum, and tail of the pancreas.
(3) These results confirm the success of sphincter-saving anterior resection combined with total mesorectal excision, routine full mobilization of the splenic flexure and cancercidal lavage of the distal rectum in the treatment of low rectal carcinomas; morbidity, local recurrence and survival are not compromised.
(4) In 1 case epidermoid epithelial metaplasia were found in the splenic flexure and in the rectum.
(5) Surgery of the perforated caecum and ampulla recti was carried out during the first 24 hours, and that of the sigmoid flexure on the seventh day.
(6) Flexural and torsional testing revealed that the use of an inclined lag screw or a prebent plate increases stability compared to the one achieved with an exactly contoured plate alone.
(7) Peritoneal signs warranted early laparotomy, which revealed coagulation necrosis of the anus, rectum, and colon up to the hepatic flexure without any free perforation.
(8) A llama, a miniature horse, and a miniature donkey with severe bilateral congenital flexural deformities of the metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints were treated successfully by arthrodesis with dynamic compression plating or external skeletal fixation.
(9) A suubsequent elective segmental distal transverse and descending colectomy revealed chronic ulcerative colitis; localized marked inflammatory giant pseudopolyp formation near the splenic flexure was responsible for the bleeding.
(10) In all the animals, enterokinase values were unequivocally the highest in the duodenal mucosa; in the other intestinal segments it displayed a marked aboral decrease, so that we found about 30% of duodenal activity in the jejunum, trace amounts in the ileum and zero values in the caecum and the sigmoid flexure.
(11) A study of the biaxial flexure strengths of polished vs. glazed specimens is needed to verify that current laboratory methods are appropriate for planned fatigue studies.
(12) The development of ciliary folds begins at the stage 45 by the flexure of the external layer in the ciliary zone.
(13) The lesions are predominant in the transverse colon and at the splenic flexure.
(14) The ceramic veneering had worse results only in the flexural strength test compared with the two bonding systems.
(15) The creep rates of six alloys for porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) restorations were determined as a function of flexural stress and temperature.
(16) This study tested the load transfer effectiveness of cast-joined structures under flexural loading conditions.
(17) The normal duodenojejunal flexure was found to be readily displaceable in neonates and could be pushed to the right of the spine in over two-thirds of patients less than 4 months old.
(18) Radical tumour resection requires complete mobilisation of the left colonic flexure, high ligature of the inferior mesenteric artery, and--in cases of extraperitoneal tumours--dissection along the fascias.
(19) The hernia contained the terminal ileum (20 cm) with caecum, part of the appendix, the ascending colon, hepatic flexure and the first third of the transverse colon.
(20) ISO or HSO were created 40 cm from the pelvic flexure and maintained for 60 mins under general anaesthesia.