(n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
(n.) The quantity contained in a basin.
(n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.
(n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
(n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
(n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.
(n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.
Example Sentences:
(1) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
(2) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
(3) The first village, Gezirat El-Maabda, has a basin system of irrigation.
(4) Since 1975, the annual average thickness in just the central part of the basin had dropped from about 11 feet to 4 feet — a decline of 65%.
(5) Activity of the opisthorchiasis focus in the Tobol-Ubagan river basins has increased under the influence of several anthropogenic factors.
(6) The Indus water treaty (pdf) was signed in 1960 between India and Pakistan in response to the latter's fear that the location of the basin of the River Indus in India could have adverse effects on agriculture in Pakistan.
(7) From these results it is inferred that tubular brush-border damage occurs in inhabitants of the Jinzu River basin.
(8) Transplantation of autologous salivary glands to the lacrimal basin has been performed in patients with severe xerophthalmos and with or without severe xerostomia.
(9) Half the young people of the Mediterranean basin are reportedly out of work .
(10) Self-assembly kitchen wall units are being added to the basket to improve coverage of furniture, while basin taps are being removed.
(11) Millions of tourists from Northern Europe visit the Mediterranean basin each year.
(12) The Nationals also have questions about Greg Hunt’s Department of the Environment retaining responsibility for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder , which manages environmental water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin.
(13) In the Congo basin, many disabled people, who are exempt from ferry fares, smuggle goods across the waters dividing the nations' riverine capitals.
(14) The annual chest X-ray surveys conducted in Hokkaido during a 5 year period from 1972 to 1976 disclosed that the Furano basin located in a central mountainous district had an extremely high discovery rate of the cases with sarcoidosis.
(15) Ribotyping patterns of aeromonads recovered from well 1, detention basin, sand filter, softener, and distribution samples were compared with those of the five clinical isolates.
(16) A combined examination revealed Basin erythema in 57.7% of the patients, lupus vulgaris in 29.9% and papulonecrotic tuberculosis of the skin in 12.4%.
(17) Standard mortality ratios (SMRs) are mapped on the basis of non-metropolitan primary and secondary employment basins of Quebec.
(18) The upper Niger basin, the south-central part of Sierra Leone, and three small foci in the Gambia, Bakoye, and lower Niger river basins were areas with a high risk of onchocercal blindness.
(19) Satellite data, analysed by University of California at Irvine scientists, suggest that the state has been losing about 4tn gallons of water a year from the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins since the drought began in 2011.
(20) The measurement takes place in 10 mm-basins at the wave-length 540 nm.
Burette
Definition:
(n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Use of the multiple-dose syringe pump system resulted in a savings of $934.81 in material costs compared with the bottle and burette system and $9.70 in material costs compared with the single-dose syringe pump system (based on 40 doses).
(2) Ultrathin (120-180 microns) gels were prepared with the flap technique and 500 microns gels with the cassette technique; 500 microns gels with immobilized pH gradients were cast using precision molds and a computer controlled mixing device of four burettes.
(3) When the cost of wasted drug was considered, the cost per day of the multiple-dose syringe pump system was substantially less (70%) than the cost per day of the bottle and burette system and approximately the same as the cost per day for the single-dose syringe pump system.
(4) To do this the lower end of the burette must be blocked and a method of doing this without the need to fuse on a glass tap is described.4.
(5) At a selected pO2, O2 supply is maintained by injecting appropriate amounts of O2-saturated aqueous medium into the reaction chamber by using a motor-driven burette.
(6) Implementation of a multiple-dose, multiple-flow-rate syringe pump system may result in cost savings over a traditional bottle and burette system and could complement an existing single-dose syringe infusion system.
(7) Assembled from readily available and economical instrumental components, the apparatus includes a pH meter, a thermoelectric heating and stirring device, a motor-driven burette, and an automatic recorder.
(8) Intravenous fluid containers, burettes, a syringe, infusion sets and end-line filters were evaluated.
(9) Up to 50% potency of chlormethiazole and nitroglycerin, 15-25% of isosorbide dinitrate, and 13-20% of diazepam was lost to PVC sets without burettes, and an additional 10-15% loss of each drug resulted when PVC sets with burettes were used.
(10) A new way of measuring the graduation error in the stem of the Lloyd-Haldane burette is described, in which a fixed mass of water is made to occupy different parts of the stem.
(11) One solution was prepared in a soft polyvinyl chloride minibag (Viaflex, Baxter-Travenol), the other in a semirigid plastic burette (Buretrol, Baxter-Travenol).
(12) administration sets with and without cellulose propionate burettes and to polybutadiene (PBD) sets with and without methacrylate butadiene styrene (MBS) burettes was studied.
(13) Infusion bags, burettes, a syringe, infusion tubings and end-line filters were tested in static and in dynamic experiments.
(14) All drugs (except chlormethiazole) were diluted with 0.9% sodium chloride injection (NS) in glass bottles or in the burette chambers.
(15) The strata in the minibag showed smaller variations in potassium concentration than did corresponding layers in the burette.
(16) Each patient received gentamicin therapy via intravenous piggyback (IVPB) and in-line burette (ILB) methods.
(17) Change of in-line burettes in patients in intensive care at 72-hour intervals is safe and should result in substantial cost savings to hospitals.
(18) At the time the new syringe pump system was implemented, the teaching hospital was using a gravity-dependent bottle and burette system and the community hospital was using a single-dose syringe pump system.
(19) The cumulative amount of paraldehyde delivered at the end of the administration set at six hours was 84% for 5% dextrose solutions in burettes, and 89% or 90% for all other solutions and i.v.
(20) The method involves dilution with an albumin solution, a 2-hr incubation with a commercially available substrate mixture, and manual titration with a burette.