(n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.
(n.) An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water.
Example Sentences:
(1) Auger spectroscopy and ion sputtering technique have shown that in surface of new archs oxygen and carbon are present up to about 300 A depth.
(2) The problem of determining RBE values for Auger emitters incorporated into proliferating mammalian cells is examined.
(3) This finding emphasizes the ability of low-energy Auger electrons to damage radiosensitive targets of cells through localized irradiation.
(4) Using an instrument equipped with two electron guns, an electron analyzer, and a Si(Li) diode detector, we developed microanalytical techniques based on inner-shell electron excitations by incident electrons and X-rays, that is, electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) in the reflection mode; electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) and X-ray appearance potential spectroscopy (XAPS); electron-induced Auger electron spectroscopy (e-AES); X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS); X-ray induced AES (XAES), X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF), and scanning X-ray radiography (SXR).
(5) It was hypothesized that the enhanced IUdR radiosensitization for 60 keV photons was a result of a larger production of Auger electron cascades from the filling of K-shell vacancies in the iodine atoms, which have a K-shell binding energy of 33.2 keV.
(6) Radiation spectra for radionuclides currently provided by the MIRD Committee and ICRP do not include the very low-energy N- and O-shell Auger electrons.
(7) We conclude that Auger electrons produced following photoelectric absorption of X rays by the K-shell of bromine contribute minimally to observed BUdR cellular radiosensitization.
(8) Among newer procedures are laser and auger angioplasty, catheter atherectomy and stents.
(9) Auger electron spectroscopy results indicate residual iodine was either left on the surface or implanted beneath the surface during iodine ion milling.
(10) Pantano, and L. L. Hench, "Auger spectroscopic analysis of bioglass corrosion films," J.
(11) The radiations studied were 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 MeV monoenergetic electrons and 32P, 67Cu, 90Y, 105Rh, 131I, 153Sm, 186Re, and 188Re beta particles and conversion and Auger electrons.
(12) However, gadolinium-157 (157Gd) n-gamma reaction is also accompanied by some internal conversion and, by implication, Auger electron emission.
(13) Most of the radionuclides used in nuclear medicine emit low energy Auger electrons following radioactive decay.
(14) It may be concluded that a major part of the enhancement was caused by inner-shell photoionization, followed by an Auger cascade of the bromine in the DNA.
(15) In 1986, O'Hara and Pearson described a method of ankle arthrodesis using an auger.
(16) These findings may have implications in the design of radiopharmaceuticals for both diagnosis (localize Auger emitter in cytoplasm of cell) and therapy (localize Auger emitter in cell nucleus).
(17) However the Auger enhancement decreased sharply under "vacuum" condition as the water content was zero.
(18) It has also been used to calculate the intensity factors of pure bulk samples and the backscattering correction factor in Auger electron spectroscopy.
(19) The present understanding provides a scientific basis toward estimation of risk associated with Auger emitters used in diagnosis, and suggests potential applications to therapy.
(20) This method is used to investigate the efficiency of double strand break production by other Auger sources which have potential value for therapy.
Carpenter
Definition:
(n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) A comparison of different age groups of employees in two occupations reveals that carpenters in the age group 30-40 years have more than ten times as many musculoskeletal disorders in their arms and hands as office workers in the same age group.
(3) The growth factor produces an initial, rapid increase in the level of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (Ins-1,4,5-P3) due to hydrolysis of phosphatidyl-inositol-4,5-bisphosphate (Wahl, M., Sweatt, J. D., and Carpenter, G. (1987) Biochem.
(4) Emphasis has been placed on (1) the time of appearance and disappearance of the synaptonemal complex (SC) and the changes in its dimensions that accompany a cell's progression through pachytene, and (2) the appearance, disappearance, number and chromosomal locations of recombination nodules (Carpenter 1975b).
(5) Updated at 3.53am GMT 3.50am GMT Red Sox 4 - Cardinals 2, bottom of the 9th Matt Carpenter takes a ball and a called strike.
(6) From electricians and carpenters, everyone should be able to take card and make money,” said de Geer.
(7) Elevated risks for stomach cancer among carpenters and machinists may reflect exposure to dusts, abrasives, and cutting oils.
(8) Odds-ratios associated with cabinetmakers (OR = 11.2, 95% CI = 2.7-45.9)) and carpenters and joiners (OR = 5.8, 95% CI = 1.8-18.6) were also significantly elevated for the other-histologic-types category.
(9) Imhotep’s abilities appear to have been extraordinary: other records show he was a doctor and high priest, as well as the king’s chief carpenter, head sculptor, and second-in-command.
(10) It was in 1963, when he was working as a carpenter in Redhill, Surrey, and short of money after the birth of his second son, that he decided to call Bruce Reynolds, whom he had first met in prison, to ask if he could borrow some money.
(11) The 23-acre Carpenters estate requires urgent redevelopment.
(12) Carpenters showed increased risks for lip cancer (odds ratio, 2.28; 95% confidence interval, 1.23 to 4.14) and lung cancer (odds ratio, 1.27; 95% confidence interval, 1.05 to 1.54).
(13) Although genetic factors underlie most types of human obesity, there are several dymorphic forms of obesity including the Prader-Willy syndrome, Cohen's syndrome, Carpenter's syndrome, Ahlstrom's syndrome and the Bardet-Biedel syndrome.
(14) In prognostic validity, the Strauss-Carpenter scale was superior to all of the other scales investigated.
(15) The Strauss-Carpenter Outcome Scale (frequency of social contacts, employment duration, symptomatology, and duration of rehospitalization) and the Clinical Global Impressions were used to assess outcome.
(16) Clippard gets ahead of him 0-2, throws a high fastball which Carpenter refuses to chase and then takes two more balls to the collective groan of Nationals Park.
(17) As well as sparking a novel, Merrill's caress further initiated Forster into the comradely haven of his and Carpenter's rural domesticity: a Derbyshire homestead, safe from public scrutiny.
(18) 4.10am BST Cardinals 4 - Dodgers 2, top of 9th Marmol is back in the top of the ninth, and he's quickly behind 3-0 to Matt Carpenter.
(19) He thought the blue on Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters was "particularly nice", but the green for Franny and Zooey was "too metallic".
(20) Utah governor Gary Herbert "has said throughout this process that his responsibility is to follow the law", spokesman Marty Carpenter said.