(n.) The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.
Example Sentences:
(1) As well as a “bimetallic” construction similar to the existing £2 coin, the new £1 will feature new banknote-strength security pioneered at the Royal Mint’s headquarters in Llantrisant, South Wales.
(2) This is associated with reversed electron transfer from the bimetallic center to ferricytochrome c. The kinetics of reduction of ferricytochrome c by the reversed electron transfer process are compared with the kinetics of formation of F and P. The results are consistent with transfer of one electron from the ferric-cupric bimetallic center (O) to cytochrome c, yielding the F intermediate, followed by transfer of one electron from the latter to cytochrome c, yielding the P state.
(3) The main current-generating corrosion cells in the oral cavity are the bimetallic cell and the concentration cell, the latter mainly occurring due to differences in access to oxygen in the various parts of the metallic material.
(4) Thirty referred patients and 15 control subjects were investigated with reference to the occurrence of bimetallic corrosion in the oral cavity.
(5) In contrast S2- or SH- is unable to form any bridge and it seems likely that two SH- ions are bound by the bimetallic site, one to Fe III a3 and the other to CuB I.
(6) The results show that only two of the electron transfers, to the 'peroxy' and 'oxyferryl' intermediates of the bimetallic centre, are linked to proton translocation, a finding which strongly constrains candidate mechanisms for proton-pumping.
(7) The bimetallic electrical implant did not produce regenerative healing under the conditions of this experiment.
(8) Its bimetallic construction is similar to the existing £2 coin.
(9) Here, I report the effects of proton-motive force and membrane potential on two equilibria involving intermediates of the bimetallic centre at different levels of O2 reduction.
(10) The compound is a bimetallic fulvalene complex with rhodium and tungsten oriented trans to each other across an essentially planar fulvalene dianion.
(11) As to the proteins whose redox potential is not facilitative and appreciably higher than -0.33 V, a bimetallic, concerted, two-equivalent reduction of the bound dioxygen to the peroxide level would be much more favoured without the intermediate formation of O2-.
(12) Analysis suggests that the two rapid reaction phases represent internal electron redistributions between the bimetallic site and cytochrome a, and between cytochrome a and CuA, respectively.
(13) At a high redox potential (Eh) of cytochrome c, high pH, and a high electrochemical proton gradient (delta mu H+) across the inner mitochondrial membrane, the initial ferriccupric state (O) of the oxidized enzyme's bimetallic oxygen reaction center is converted to ferryl (F) and peroxy (P) intermediates, the optical spectroscopic properties of which are reported in detail.
(14) In this evolution of special importance were bimetallic enzymes, such as nitrogenase, some nitrate reductases and hydrogenases, carbon dioxide reductase, xanthine oxidase, cytochrome oxidase.
(15) During respiration, an exogenous donor, cytochrome c, donates four electrons to O2 bound at the bimetallic haem alpha 3 Fe-Cu centre within the enzyme.
(16) The effect of different sodium chloride concentrations on the integrated currents (charge transfers) between dental amalgams and a gold alloy was studied in a bimetallic cell containing saliva or saline solutions.
(17) This is considerably slower than the maximal rates observed for electron transfer between cytochrome a and the bimetallic site found in earlier work and suggests rate limitation by other processes.
(18) The bimetallic haem iron-copper reaction centre in this family of enzymes is the critical structure for catalysis of both these processes.
(19) The bimetallic super-coiling might contribute to the power-stroke.
(20) Interestingly, in these circumstances (azide and uncoupler present), Fea behaves as if it were no longer the kinetically controlling electron donor to the bimetallic center.
Monetary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary.
Example Sentences:
(1) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(2) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
(3) An employee's career advancement, professional development, monetary remuneration and self-esteem often may depend upon the final outcome of the process.
(4) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(5) As he sits in Athens wondering when the International Monetary Fund is going to deliver another bailout, George Papandreou might be tempted to hum a few lines of Tired of Waiting for You.
(6) Britain will be the best performing of the world's major economies this year with growth of 2.9%, according to the International Monetary Fund, as consumer spending rebounds, inflation remains low and unemployment continues to fall steadily.
(7) The euro’s weakness – and its move to near-parity with the dollar – has come after a period of low and even negative interest rates as well as a programme of monetary stimulus measures from the European Central Bank.
(8) Ahead of a meeting of eurozone finance ministers, International Monetary Fund officials and the European Central Bank on Greece on Monday, the official made plain that there was unlikely to be any quick agreement.
(9) As Carsten Brzeski , senior economist at ING , puts it: Data released since the April rate-setting meeting have provided further evidence that more monetary action could be needed in the euro zone...
(10) Which would be fine if the separate economies in question were sufficiently aligned to be treated as one bloc for the purposes of monetary policy; but surely the contrasting fortunes of the core and peripheral countries even before 2008 suggest that is not (yet) the case?
(11) "If required, we will act swiftly with further monetary policy easing.
(12) That could make it more difficult to gain a majority decision to change monetary policy in either direction," says Nick Bate, economist at Bank of America in London.
(13) As the eurozone experience proves, sustaining a monetary union requires banking, fiscal and full economic union.
(14) The evidence increasingly shows that monetary policy, broadly defined and effectively deployed, can work, but with two caveats.
(15) Completing monetary union means four things – a banking union, a fiscal union, an economic union, a democratically legitimised political union.
(16) A few emerging-market economies have similar wobbles to Iceland but get assistance from the International Monetary Fund.
(17) Bernanke's announcement came after the International Monetary Fund, which is holding its annual meetings in Washington, warned that the world financial system was "back in the danger zone".
(18) Greece’s debt is currently around 175% of its annual national income, most of it owed to official creditors such as the European Central Bank or the International Monetary Fund.
(19) The nine members of the Bank’s monetary policy committee appear divided over the likely path of pay growth and the implications for when they should raise interest rates from the current record low of 0.5%.
(20) Monetary policy committee (MPC) member Adam Posen had also indicated on Thursday he was ready to vote for more electronic cash to be pumped into markets if it became clear the UK economy was entering another recession.