What's the difference between average and instantaneous?

Average


Definition:

  • (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).

Instantaneous


Definition:

  • (a.) Done or occurring in an instant, or without any perceptible duration of time; as, the passage of electricity appears to be instantaneous.
  • (a.) At or during a given instant; as, instantaneous acceleration, velocity, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
  • (2) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
  • (3) Doppler echocardiographic examination at the site of the pulmonary anastomosis revealed an instantaneous gradient less than 20 mmHg in 9 patients (45%), a gradient between 20 and 60 mmHg in 9 patients (45) and a gradient greater than 60 mmHg in two patients (10%).
  • (4) The present work describes two methods, the method of instantaneous dilution and that of gel filtration.
  • (5) It was concluded that 1) late ejection was quantitatively important to LV pumping, 2) behavior during late ejection was inconsistent with E(t)-R, and 3) ad hoc modification of E(t)-R models was not likely to yield LV pumping models that could satisfactorily reproduce instantaneous P(t) and Q(t) behavior over the entire ejection period.
  • (6) It is shown that when a constant current is applied such that a stable equilibrium and rhythmic firing are present, the following predictions are inherent in the HH system of equations: (a) Small instantaneous voltage perturbations to the axon given at points along its firing spike result in phase resetting curves (when new phase versus old phase is plotted) with an average slope of 1.
  • (7) Limits of agreement, in stable haemodynamic situations without drugs, were -20.0 and 22.4% of mean average flow for constant diameter Doppler flow estimates, and -14.5 and 15.1% of electromagnetic flow values for instantaneous diameter estimates.
  • (8) The I50 is 7 x 10(-6) M. The inhibitory effect is instantaneous and completely reversed by washing the cells with a Ringer solution.
  • (9) Bohr's equation (BE); 2. ideal alveolar air equation for O2 (IDO2); 3. end-tidal (ET); 4. by the Rahn's definition of 'mean alveolar gas', i.e., alveolar pressures are defined when instantaneous respiratory exchange ratio (IRQ) equals mean respiratory exchange ratio (MRQ).
  • (10) A new technique is described, in which a copy machine (Rank-Xerox) is used for instantaneous reproduction of biological assays.
  • (11) Inhibition was essentially instantaneous and irreversible to G-25 gel filtration.
  • (12) On the other hand, the values of the instantaneous frequency, duration, and rhythmicity of the copulatory thrusting movements performed during mounts, intromissions or ejaculations did not differ significantly from the values obtained under saline treatment.
  • (13) A beam flatness monitor is described which consists of 16 iron chambers and amplifiers, the outputs of which are sequentially sampled and displayed as a series of dots or lines on a conventional CRO, giving an instantaneous display of beam flatness variations.
  • (14) To assess the relation of instantaneous speed to discharge rate, the component of the discharge pattern related to direction was subtracted from the total discharge.
  • (15) A stochastic process model developed to fit these data indicated the influence of both time-dependent and instantaneous components of IIF, presumed to be the result of seeding and heterogeneous nucleation, respectively.
  • (16) The threshold of instantaneous change of stage 2 to shallower stages due to the sound of a passing truck was at the peak level at less than 55 dB (A), and that of stage REM to other stages at 55 to 60 dB (A).
  • (17) Under these conditions, the instantaneous current observed as soon as the depolarizing pulse is applied displays outward rectification and reverses near ECl.
  • (18) For breast tissue characterization, three acoustic parameters, integrated attenuation coefficient(IAC), frequency-dependent attenuation coefficient(FDAC) and instantaneous frequency(IF), were estimated in vitro and processed to make images of these parameters for resected human breast specimens.
  • (19) Furthermore, the study shows that plasma conjugated CA may provide delayed and cumulative indexes of sympathetic activation, complementary to the instantaneous markers such as free CA.
  • (20) A simple sliding apparatus was used to prestretch instantaneously the plastic modules to 100, 200 and 300% of their original length.