(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.
Cuvette
Definition:
(n.) A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.
(n.) A cunette.
(n.) A small vessel with at least two flat and transparent sides, used to hold a liquid sample to be analysed in the light path of a spectrometer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
(2) The measured cardiac output is compared with values of cardiac output simultaneously determined using a cuvette densitometer.
(3) A monolayer of red cells was placed in a closed reaction cuvette set on a microscope stage, a light beam of 5 to 10 mum in diameter was directed into one of the red cells, and the light transmission change in the cell was analyzed.
(4) Tests of the wedge cuvette method with Evans Blue and Malachite Green serial dilutions as well as with haemoglobin solutions at several oxygen saturations demonstrate that accuracy of the order of 1% can be obtained.
(5) In purification procedures with microbial collagenases many fractions were tested by overnight incubations in disposable cuvettes.
(6) In this photometric platelet aggregation test (PAT III) a small amount (0.6 ml) of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is being rotated in a disc-shaped cuvette at 20 rpm, at 37% C. Changes in optical density of PRP which are induced by the formation of platelet aggregates are continuously registered using a chart recorder.
(7) Combination of the photometers with a "cuvette test" produced satisfactory results on comparison with a reliable reference method.
(8) Initial experiments whereby diluted tear samples were incubated with special polyacrylate ELISA microcuvettes showed no binding of tear-lactoferrin to the cuvettes whereas a marked binding of purified lactoferrin could be observed.
(9) A peristaltic pump, a controlled-temperature water bath, and a spectrophotometer with flow cuvette are the only special apparatus required.
(10) Illumination with a medium-wave uv lamp of samples placed in disposable, dual pathlength, polystyrene fluorescence cuvettes allows treatment of small sample volumes (greater than or equal to 100 microliters) of various optical density.
(11) Two microliters, or less, of blood is diluted with an ammonium hydroxide solution directly in the measuring cuvette.
(12) Specimens can be homogeneously Feulgen-stained if a high constancy of temperature is realized in the staining cuvette during acid hydrolysis.
(13) As the instrument spins the rotor, capillary and rotational forces process the blood into diluted plasma, distribute the patient's diluted sample to cuvettes containing the reagent beads, and mix the diluted sample with the reagents.
(14) Very small PVC-matrix ISE with internal diameters as small as 0.035 inches were constructed and used in combination with small cuvettes, so that measurements could be carried out in 250 muL of stirred solution.
(15) To evaluate accuracy, the dye-dilution (cuvette) method was simultaneously employed in some subjects.
(16) Peritoneal mast cells from rat were co-incubated in vitro in a platelet aggregometer cuvette with washed rabbit platelets.
(17) The mixing chamber houses a disposable plastic cuvette stirred with a magnetic stirrer.
(18) The space in the cuvette prevented the red cells from drying thereby providing favorable physiological conditions during measurements.
(19) When dithionite-reduced enzyme sits in an open cuvette, the enzyme returns to the oxidized state, and the fluorescence maximum shifts back to 328 nm.
(20) The AO cuvette is very suitable for use in this measurement, since this method requires less than 15 microliters of serum.