(n.) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
(n.) A tariff or duty on goods, etc.
(n.) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
(n.) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
(n.) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.
(n.) A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.
(n.) Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
(n.) In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
(a.) Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.
(a.) According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
(v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.
(v. t.) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.
(v. t.) To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.
(v. i.) To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recovery of CV-3988 from plasma averaged 81.7% for the column procedure and 40% for the organic extraction.
(2) Medication remained effective during the average observation time of 22 months.
(3) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(4) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
(5) Measures of average and cumulative rank were used to augment tests of the significance of correlations between different indicators.
(6) Average fluoroscopy time per procedure was 27.8 minutes of which 15.1 minutes were for nephrostomy tube insertion and 12.7 minutes were for calculi extraction.
(7) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(8) The maximum amplitude of the inward Na+ current, normalized by cell capacitance, is about sixfold larger, on the average, in LP lactotropes than in SP lactotropes.
(9) Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) and postheparin esterase (PHE) activity was determined in 35 patients with primary hyperlipoproteinaemia (HLP) type IV (average age 50 years), 28 with type V (average age 48 years) and 2 with type III (57 and 62 years).
(10) The terminal half-life averaged 12 h following intravenous and 15 h after oral administration.
(11) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(12) About 30% of clonable T cells, including both CD4+ CD8- and CD4- CD8+ cells, could be expanded for assay at an average of 22 days after cloning.
(13) Data are shown for both mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, indicating that, in this respect, even the smallest average organ absorbed dose can be effective, particularly for high-LET radiation.
(14) Gross mortgage lending stood at £7.9bn in April compared with £8.7bn in March and a six-month average of £9.9bn.
(15) On embryonic day 3.5 (E3.5), 1 day after surgery, there is a 42% average increase in volume of the polyganglia compared with the corresponding DRG on the unoperated side.
(16) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(17) Average temperature changes observed were less than 1 degree C. The present study demonstrates that the electrically evoked response in mammalian brain can be altered by ultrasound in a non-thermal, non-cavitational mode, and that such effects are potentially reversible.
(18) These levels are sufficient to maintain normal in vivo rates of mRNA and rRNA synthesis, but the average density of packing of polymerases on DNA is considerably less than the maximum density predicted by Miller and Bakken (1972), suggesting that initiation of polymerases of DNA is a limiting factor in the control of transcription.
(19) The variation in age-specific rates with age was similar for all cancers, as demonstrated by large positive correlation coefficients between age-incidence patterns averaged over all populations.
(20) The average follow-up was 3.5 years (range 2-5.5 years).
Convolution
Definition:
(n.) The act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion.
(n.) The state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself.
(n.) An irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. See Brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) When compared with lissencephalic species, a great horizontal fibrillary system (which is vertically arranged in gyral regions) was observed in convoluted brains.
(2) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(3) In situ hybridization of SMG sections showed that Aeg-1 and Aeg-2 transcripts are produced by the cells of granular convoluted tubules.
(4) The NAD-dependent enzymes (except alpha-GPDH) showed a stronger reactivity in the proximal tubules, while the NADP-dependent ones were more reactive in the thick limb of Henle's loop and distal convoluted tubules.
(5) The recent identification among non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphomas of a high-grade malignancy entity of possible thymic origin and defined as lymphoblastic convoluted-cell lymphoma allowed the morphologic and radiological diagnosis of nine cases of this disease.
(6) Peritubular capillary microperfusion was used to examine the effects of protein-free and hyperoncotic homologous plasma on fluid reabsorption by proximal convoluted tubules in the hydropenic rat.
(7) In submandibular glands, 1 to 4 weeks after ovariectomy, no changes were observed in percentages of the acinar, intercalated duct, and granular convoluted tubular areas occupying photomicrographs.
(8) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
(9) The delivery of sodium to the end of the proximal convoluted tubule was considerably reduced in each group of thiazide-treated rats.
(10) Glucose-6-phosphatase was 20 times higher in the early part of the convoluted segment than in the late part of the straight segment.
(11) There were large numbers of lipid vacuoles within hepatocytes, epithelial cells of the proximal convoluted tubule of kidney and macrophages of the liver, spleen and lymph node.
(12) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
(13) As determined by in situ hybridization analysis, epithelial cells of proximal convoluted tubules of cortical nephrons express KAP mRNA in response to androgenic stimulation while similar cells in the juxtamedullary S3 segment of the tubules express KAP mRNA under estrogenic and pituitary hormonal control.
(14) Three antibodies bound to brush-border membranes of proximal convoluted and straight tubules.
(15) The smaller dose of iohexol and the larger dose of all the contrast media induced a statistically significant (P < .001 or .01) cytoplasmic vacuolization in the proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) cells.
(16) The basement membranes of the proximal and distal convoluted tubules, those of Bowman's capsule and glomerulus, and the mesangial matrix were labeled for all the antigens but to differing extents.
(17) The microfibril has been constructed by convolution of th elementary fibril with a two dimensional point lattice.
(18) The differences in performance for successive cross-hand and within-hand keypresses were examined using IKT distributions and hazard functions, and it was shown that the empirical hazard functions could be fit by the theoretical hazard function derived from the convolution of normal and inverse Gaussian random variables.
(19) Such a scheme (linear convolutional recognizer, LCR) assigns a number (weight) to each type of monomer, and then convolutes some window function with the sequence of weights.
(20) These studies demonstrate that net oxalate secretion occurs in the early portions of the proximal convoluted tubule, undergoes bidirectional transport of approximately equal magnitude in later segments of the proximal tubule, and probably is not transported in more distal nephron sites.