(n.) A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.
Example Sentences:
(1) The binnacle protected the ship's metal compass and its coming home to Cardiff is the result of a long hard fight by Dr Peter Lloyd Jones and Michael Tarver, vice president of the Captain Scott Society.
(2) They told me a bit more about the binnacle in the video below.
(3) It is here visitors will get the chance to view the original binnacle from the Terra Nova ship which took Captain Scott and his team on their ill-fated voyage to Antarctica in 1910.
Corrector
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, corrects; as, a corrector of abuses; a corrector of the press; an alkali is a corrector of acids.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Lynn Magnathologic Corrector is an orthopedic mechanical and magnetic traction device designed to enhance the concepts of the Bio-Finisher.
(2) Although it is true that the resistance to parasites and the need to avoid a mutational collapse of the genome are likely to have called for some compartmentation in precellular stages of evolution, no clear demonstration, that the proposed mechanisms (the compartmentalized hypercycle and the stochastic corrector model) do in fact solve the error threshold problem, exists.
(3) Methyl-dopa and pyridoxine served as a corrector of levopa.
(4) It might consist of a field emission source, an electron gun to decelerate the electrons, a condenser lens to produce a parallel beam, a multipole corrector and a short focal length objective lens.
(5) The combination of the metabolic correctors exerted a lesser effect on the fractional composition of hemoglobins, producing a well-defined positive action on erythrocyte function, decelerating the processes of their ageing.
(6) The purpose of this study was to evaluate treatment effects of the magnetic active vertical corrector appliance (AVC) when used to treat anterior openbites in a sample of growing patients.
(7) Neither residual apneas, changes in pulmonary function, change in anatomic dead space, nor changes in ventilatory chemoresponsiveness differentiated the two groups, nor did the last three factors account for return to eucapnia in the correctors.
(8) Researches are being conducted : 1) to obtain long-acting antiparkinsonian correctors ; 2) to find out some form of lithium salts which, after one administration, would allow a stable nycthemeral lithiemy.
(9) The stochastic corrector model is presented as an alternative resolution of Eigen's paradox.
(10) The correspondance computer-corrector is 88 p. 100 for the three principal phases: waking, slow sleep and paradoxical sleep.
(11) The Lynn Magnathologic Corrector is an evolutionary advance in both performance and convenience for the doctor and the patient.
(12) A gamma-camera on-line distortion corrector, based on a fast microprocessor, has been tested on two cameras.
(13) The first French publications upon its use as a neuroleptic corrector date from 1972.
(14) The exertion and risk factors in relation with the state of health, with the psychophysiological reactivity and with the adaptation and fatigue symptomatology were studied by means of complex psychological, psychophysiological, medical) methods in two professional groups that perform an activity implying important mental and sensorial components: monotasterers and correctors, from three polygraphic enterprises and two publishing houses, totalling 167 subjects (74 monotasterers and 93 correctors).
(15) In the article is summarized the experience of treatment of 15 patients with dysplastic lumbar scoliosis of the II and III degree by the method of electrostimulation of dorsal muscles by means of walking corrector.
(16) Practical: prevention by moderated and adapted prescription of neuroleptics, specially for long term treatments and oldest patients; anticholinergic correctors must be cautiously prescribed.
(17) Further advancement of the instrumental performance might be accomplished in different ways, including the use of high coherence conditions combined with image restoration; the use of higher accelerating voltages; the use of aberration correctors; or the use of conditions for incoherent image formation.
(18) Only sodium and potassium interfere at 500-fold concentrations, and their interferences were overcome by using the Deuterium Arc Background Corrector.
(19) Side-effects were frequent: extrapyramidal syndroms, often requiring antiparkinsonian correctors, somnolence, asthenia, and above all (in 30 percent of cases) psychical side-effects, consisting in depressive and anxious modifications of mood, even apart from manic-melancholic psychosis.
(20) The efficacy of rheopolyglucin and complex blood correctors based on it was demonstrated in experiments on 86 albino male rats.