What's the difference between axes and tetragonal?

Axes


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Axis

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An ice axe, assumed to belong to Irvine, had been discovered in 1933 by the fourth British expedition to the mountain.
  • (2) The calculated separation between the centers of these two pigments (using an extended version of the exciton theory) is about 10 A, the pigments' molecular planes are tilted by about 20 degrees, and their N1-N3 axes are rotated by 150 degrees relative to each other.
  • (3) The helix axes, penetrating the hydrophobic region of the bilayers, were oriented neither parallel nor perpendicular to the membrane normal.
  • (4) Glencore has responded in textbook fashion: it has cut operating costs, sold assets and taken the axe to capital investment.
  • (5) Early papers on interspecies pharmacokinetic scaling normalized the x- and y-axes to illustrate the superimpossibility of pharmacokinetic curves from different species.
  • (6) Loss-making Northern Rock is axing another 680 jobs as it cuts costs in preparation for a return to the private sector after being nationalised in February 2008 .
  • (7) Thousands of jobs have been axed , including more than 4,000 senior nurses .
  • (8) The authors have studied the longest and the shortest nuclear axes, the ratio between nuclear axes, the nuclear areas and the mitotic indices in melanocytic tumors and have noted progressive changes of the values in superficial spreading and in nodular melanoma as compared to nevi.
  • (9) UniCredit, Italy’s biggest bank, last week announced plans to raise €13bn in a record-breaking share issue and axe 11% of the workforce.
  • (10) The BBC should not be forced to close any channels or axe any programmes as part of any review of plurality and ownership in the media industry, according to a submission the broadcaster has filed with media regulator Ofcom .
  • (11) In this paper, the three rotational axes are shown to be skewed and off-set from each other, therefore, a three-cylindric open chain with skewed joint axes is proposed to measure the six displacements between the two reference frames.
  • (12) The axes of these lines converge in a frontal plane on the epiphysis.
  • (13) The experimental results demonstrate that a parallel arrangement of the longitudinal axes of the lateral teeth is formed co-operatively in the dental arch.
  • (14) But he denied having an axe to grind against Riordan, now a Fair Work Commissioner.
  • (15) Measurements of the angle of the gibbus and the angle of intersection of the renal axes were made in 68 children with thoracolumbar meningomyelocele.
  • (16) The crystals are trigonal, space group P3(1)21 with axes a = b = 102.2 A and c = 58.5 A.
  • (17) The mRNAs begin to accumulate during late embryogeny, reach maximal levels in seedling cotyledons, are not detected at significant amounts in leaves, and are distributed similarly in cotyledons and axes of seedlings.
  • (18) In addition, the co-aligned configuration of the ends of the sex-chromosome axes of this species and the lack of silver-stainable threads or filaments connecting them suggest the existence of two mechanisms for association of the sex chromosomes during prophase I and metaphase I: attachment of the ends of both sex chromosome axes to the nuclear envelope and heterochromatin "stickiness."
  • (19) Tomography of the petrous bones showed, in both cases, an upward tilt of the long axes of the bones including their auditory canals, generalized sclerosis of the petrous pyramids and enlargement of the ossicles.
  • (20) Taking the axe to public spending would, they say, allow the chancellor to cut taxes and that would prompt a private sector led recovery.

Tetragonal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal fingers.
  • (a.) Having four prominent longitudinal angles.
  • (a.) Designating, or belonging to, a certain system of crystallization; dimetric. See Tetragonal system, under Crystallization.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The crystals are tetragonal, with unit cell dimensions a = 48.9 A and c = 82.0 A, space group P 41 21 2 or P 43212.
  • (2) The morphological unit of the regular array appeared to consist of four spherical subunits, each about 2 nm in diameter, which were arranged in a tetragonal pattern about 4.5 by 7.0 nm in dimension.
  • (3) Two different tetragonal crystal forms have been characterized, both diffracting to about 6 A using synchrotron radiation.
  • (4) The outer structured layer was a linear array of particles overlying an inner tetragonal array of larger subunits.
  • (5) An activity assay of redissolved tetragonal form crystals indicates that the uncleaved, functional serpin has been crystallized.
  • (6) The A ring of the steroid in the tetragonal crystal was found to be disordered, and exists in both a normal and inverted conformation.
  • (7) One was in a hexagonal array, and the other was in a tetragonal array.
  • (8) The crystals are tetragonal rods with unit cell dimensions a = 128.6 A, c = 92.5 A.
  • (9) A hydrated cobalt ion is found to coordinate to two N7 atoms of adjacent guanines, forcing these two guanines to destack with a large dihedral angle (32 degrees), in the dimer of the tetragonal form.
  • (10) These tubules are clearly distinguishable by their shape and fine structure from the periodic structure of a P. rhodos cell wall layer, which exhibits a tetragonal pattern, and also from polyheads and polysheaths of defective bacteriophages.
  • (11) The structure crystallizes in the tetragonal space group P41 with a = 8.225 (5) and c = 28.42 (1) A.
  • (12) This truncated S-protein was exported via the periplasm to the cell surface, but could not self-assemble into a tetragonal array or be anchored to the cell surface.
  • (13) Bacillus sphaericus strain P-1 has previously been shown to have a tetragonally arrayed (T layer) protein which forms the outer layer of the cell wall.
  • (14) Its three-dimensional structure from two different crystal forms (tetragonal and trigonal) has been determined by X-ray diffraction analysis at 1 A resolution.
  • (15) Both crystal forms are tetragonal, the space group for form I is P4(1)22 (or P4(3)22), and that for form II is P4(2)22.
  • (16) Density variations suggest an arrangement of subunits, either tetragonal or trigonal, viewed from a variety of angles about the DNA axis.
  • (17) The binuclear copper site is characterized as two tetragonal Cu(II) atoms bridged by both an endogenous protein ligand and the exogenous ligand (i.e., peroxide), with the lack of an electron paramagnetic resonance signal being the result of antiferromagnetic exchange via the endogenous bridge.
  • (18) The crystals are tetragonal, show the symmetry of space group P4(1) or its enantiomer, have lattice constants of a = 58.46 (1) and c = 77.02 (3) A, and scatter to at least 2 A resolution.
  • (19) These elevations were distributed according to a tetragonal pattern with a periodicity of 850 A.
  • (20) Crystals are tetragonal, with space group P42(1)2, a = b = 171 A, c = 150 A in the absence of ATP; and P422, a = b = 101 A, c = 114.4 A in the presence of ATP.