(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.
Occultation
Definition:
(n.) The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.
(n.) Fig.: The state of being occult.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fecal occult blood was positive in 4 patients and fecal leukocytes were positive in one patient.
(2) The present report details an unusual patient with "occult temporal arteritis" who sustained abrupt monocular visual loss and subsequent ipsilateral ophthalmoplegia involving all functions of the oculomotor nerve.
(3) The concept of almost total breast biopsy has great merit in the discovery of occult carcinoma.
(4) Lateral cervical cystic metastases arising from occult thyroid carcinoma and their ultrasonic differentiation from true cysts are discussed.
(5) The procedure may prove useful for detection of occult infections and may provide a new diagnostic approach in fever of unknown origin.
(6) Previous studies suggest that patients who are in clinical remission harbor tumor in multiple occult "sanctuaries."
(7) While occult breast carcinoma was relatively common in our series (two of 17 patients), the ability to detect the tumor with mammography was disappointing (one of two patients).
(8) A clinico-pathological study of 10 cases (including histopathology) indicates that occult cholesteatoma is neither a congenital cholesteatoma nor an epidermoid cyst, originating in the attic through a melaplastic process of middle ear mucosa behind an intact tympanic membrane.
(9) In order to estimate the diagnostic validity of chemical fecal occult blood tests, i.e.
(10) Arm exercise with myocardial scintigraphy may be an effective method of detecting occult ischemia in patients with peripheral vascular disease.
(11) ), the diagnostic significance (occult carcinoma?, parenchymal asymmetry?, benign or malignant microcalcification?)
(12) The importance of recognising occult CO exposure and of treating symptomatic patients promptly cannot be overemphasized.
(13) In contrast to the immunologically-detected fecal occult blood test, the sensitivity and specificity for CR cancers are surprisingly high, the percentage values in using the Shams test having been found to be 100% and 93.1%, respectively (Shamsuddin).
(14) Accordingly, exacerbation of atherogenesis may accompany release of platelet-associated growth factors (or mitogens) occurring in association with occult, repetitive thrombosis and thrombolysis.
(15) It was found that combining faecal occult blood testing with the health check did not reduce attendance at the health check--43.5% of patients attended when the Haemoccult test kit was offered by the nurse at the health check, 43.6% attended when a test kit was included with the invitation to attend the health check and 42.9% attended when the health check invitation was posted on its own.
(16) Gastric antral vascular ectasia ('water melon stomach') is a poorly documented cause of occult upper gastrointestinal blood loss.
(17) Because cavernous malformations are often angiographically occult and do not have a characteristic appearance on computed tomography (CT), they are seldom recognized preoperatively and may be missed if the surgical specimen is not carefully reviewed.
(18) Taken together, these data demonstrate that dental radiography is not efficacious for the purpose of detecting occult lesions.
(19) A forensic autopsy series of 519 women more than 14 years old was studied for prevalence of benign, atypical, and occult malignant breast lesions.
(20) and metoclopramide stimulation have considerable value in identifying hyperprolactinaemic patients with prolactin-secreting adenomas, particularly those which are radiologically occult.