What's the difference between attainment and attaintment?
Attainment
Definition:
(n.) The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts.
(n.) That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.
Example Sentences:
(1) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
(2) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
(3) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(4) Radioactivity attained in different tissues at different times after a single intraperitoneal injection of 3H-gentamicin into male rats was determined using scintillation counting.
(5) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(6) The amount of 15N incorporated into the proteins in 1 litre plasma attained up to 3% of the given dose.
(7) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
(8) The mechanism by which such high levels were attained was primrily a combination of arterial hypoxia and a high carbon monoxide yield from tobacco.
(9) However, when it has attained a length of about half the cell body diameter, it becomes SUP GLU+ and 6-11B-1+.
(10) One patient attained a complete response, two a partial response, and two showed progressive disease.
(11) Dose adjustment using 24-hour levels was well tolerated and should help to attain a more rapid response to antidepressant treatment.
(12) In contrast, T lymphocyte cytolytic activity developed more slowly in regressing sarcomas and attained peak levels coincident with the beginning of tumor regression.
(13) Experimental photogenic epilepsy attained by creating GPIE in the EGB with the aid of TT, is proposed as a model for studying the mechanism of epileptogenesis and testing the efficacy of anticonvulsive drugs.
(14) The surgical approach used for each type of complication is discussed, underlining the end-result to be attained in relation to the patient's future.
(15) In particular, poorly differentiated carcinomas at this site should be treated as germ cell tumors, and so long-term survival will be attainable.
(16) ODC attained maximum activity in controls on day 11, increasing by more than an order of magnitude above the activity found on day 9.
(17) As many as 25 turnovers of the transport cycle per monomer can occur prior to attainment of steady state.
(18) Nearly 30% of students scored A or A*, whereas across the UK only 26% attained these grades.
(19) During well-coordinated neurological and psychiatric treatment the laughing seizures (spontaneous, event-related, psychogenic) decreased and a considerable improvement in psychiatric and psychosocial problems was attained.
(20) An arrest of a depressive syndrome in manic-depressive psychosis in old age can be attained by an introduction of 150-200 mg of azafen daily.