What's the difference between backup and equal?

Backup


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Accordingly, the New York State rabies diagnostic laboratory has replaced the MIT with the in vitro procedure as a backup for the fluorescent-antibody test in the routine diagnosis of rabies.
  • (2) A total of 60 Gy was delivered in 30 fractions, with backup temporary pacing and continuous ECG monitoring used for the first 5 fractions.
  • (3) Pant had to buy extra hard drives to serve as backup copies of the top-secret files.
  • (4) I live in a town of 1,500 people with seven pharmacies as well as pain clinics and methadone clinics and the full backup industry.
  • (5) In the remaining 1,014 procedures (79%) (backup group), although the surgical team was "in house," they were not necessarily ready for an immediate intervention.
  • (6) Cooperative group protocols, used in the clinical setting of pediatric oncologists, with extensive resources and major referral center backup, have improved the prognosis of childhood ALL.
  • (7) These results indicate that the contribution to cell survival of UV endonuclease, an enzyme specific for pyrimidine dimers, is manifest if the backup by the Uvr homolog is absent.
  • (8) Carbamazepine receives special attention because of its status as the most promising backup treatment for lithium.
  • (9) My personal favorite part was Beyoncé had her backup singers and dancers in pantsuits.” Each celebrity who joined Clinton for her last push seemed to top the previous night, giving her closing appearances an aura of celebration.
  • (10) Joeri Van Bogaert, president of the FTTH Council, a lobbying group funded by telecoms manufacturers (but explicitly not telecoms companies), notes that if you introduce high-speed links, suddenly all sorts of connections become possible: video from local services streamed directly, high-speed real-time backups (100Mbps is twice as fast as USB 2.0), real-time high-quality interactive multiplayer games and so on.
  • (11) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
  • (12) Power demands and battery backup capability of equipment should be considered in future equipment purchases.
  • (13) A community woman, with educational, social service, and medical backup support from the Children and Youth Program, made home visits 7 to 10 days after the birth and between regularly scheduled well-child-care visits.
  • (14) Study findings indicate that efforts to reduce hospital backups must address specific barriers to timely LTC placement, including shortages of institutional and noninstitutional LTC services, and the lack of financial incentives for LTC providers to accept heavier care patients.
  • (15) Also, if greater than 3,500 ml is expected additional backup (i.e.
  • (16) The ribbon procedure appears to be a viable form of timeout, provided that disruptive behaviors during timeout can be tolerated within the setting, or a backup procedure such as exclusionary timeout can be tolerated within the setting, or a backup procedure such as exclusionary timeout is available when needed.
  • (17) Backup decongestant medication decreased during treatment with azelastine and increased during the placebo regimen.
  • (18) The Daily Staff Log is an empirically refined instrument to assess staff hours spent in direct patient and collateral contact, clinical backup time, consultation, education, and administration.
  • (19) Some, however, expressed frustration at what they saw as indecisive tactics by their senior command, as well as a general lack of police numbers and of riot-trained backup officers.
  • (20) His backup, Daryl Richardson, is inactive, meaning that rookie Bennie Cunningham should see some action in relief of Stacy.

Equal


Definition:

  • (a.) Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subject which admits of them; neither inferior nor superior, greater nor less, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal quantities of land, water, etc. ; houses of equal size; persons of equal stature or talents; commodities of equal value.
  • (a.) Bearing a suitable relation; of just proportion; having competent power, abilities, or means; adequate; as, he is not equal to the task.
  • (a.) Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement.
  • (a.) Evenly balanced; not unduly inclining to either side; characterized by fairness; unbiased; impartial; equitable; just.
  • (a.) Of the same interest or concern; indifferent.
  • (a.) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed.
  • (a.) Exactly agreeing with respect to quantity.
  • (n.) One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or number; as, "If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal."
  • (n.) State of being equal; equality.
  • (v. t.) To be or become equal to; to have the same quantity, the same value, the same degree or rank, or the like, with; to be commen/urate with.
  • (v. t.) To make equal return to; to recompense fully.
  • (v. t.) To make equal or equal to; to equalize; hence, to compare or regard as equals; to put on equality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
  • (2) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
  • (3) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
  • (4) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
  • (5) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
  • (6) A NYHA-class greater than II was observed in 18% of patients with type-I hypertrophy, in 29% with type II, but in 61% with type III (p less than or equal to 0.05).
  • (7) The effect of S-adenosylhomocysteine on DNA methylation was examined, and it was found at equal molar concentrations of S-adenosylhomocysteine to to S-adenosylmethionine that DNA methylation was competitively inhibited 50%.
  • (8) All five individuals appeared to have acute C. pneumoniae infection as determined by results of serologic tests (titers of IgM antibody for all individuals were greater than or equal to 1:16).
  • (9) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
  • (10) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
  • (11) The M 13 specific DNA present in minicells isolated several hours after infection consists of single stranded viral DNA and double stranded replicative forms in nearly equal amounts.
  • (12) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
  • (13) At sufficiently high field intensities, the reaction may approach a value equal to that of the free enzyme system.
  • (14) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
  • (15) 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.
  • (16) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
  • (17) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
  • (18) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
  • (19) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
  • (20) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.