What's the difference between boundary and conterminous?

Boundary


Definition:

  • (n.) That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (2) In contrast, boundary layer diffusion is operative in the release from the matrixes prepared by compression of physical mixtures.
  • (3) The review will now be delayed for five years, leaving the next election to be fought on the existing constituency boundaries, and seriously damaging David Cameron's chances of winning an overall majority in 2015.
  • (4) In Europe such escapees often find themselves recaptured by boundary adjustments.
  • (5) This gene was previously shown to have a DNase I- and S1-sensitive site for which the boundaries varied with the cell cycle, and we have now precisely mapped these modifications.
  • (6) Past measurements have shown that the intensity range is reduced at the extremes of the F0 range, that there is a gradual upward tilt of the high- and low-intensity boundaries with increasing F0, and that a ripple exists at the boundaries.
  • (7) The problem, however, is that this scale of economic planning and management is entirely outside the boundaries of our reigning ideology.
  • (8) His first ball reaches Ali at hip height and he flicks him to fine leg for a boundary that takes him to a quite epic century.
  • (9) Upon estimation of 5' and 3' boundaries, a 497 base stretch of homology with the TOP1 mRNA was found.
  • (10) Responses above the associated boundary decreased stimulus intensity, responses below the associated boundary increased stimulus intensity.
  • (11) The position of the sedimenting boundary can be observed at any time during the run, and up to six 'photographs' can be recorded for subsequent analysis.
  • (12) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
  • (13) First, chains are constrained by their inability to penetrate the boundary.
  • (14) Within the developing CNS of mouse embryos the anterior boundaries of expression are specific for each gene.
  • (15) Cities and counties across the US have also passed laws that prohibit such performances from occurring within their boundaries.
  • (16) The rate of forward patch movement was generally greater at positions further behind the boundary.
  • (17) He said the proposals had been directed at seats that have not changed hands for many years, but said with the redrawing of the constituency boundaries required by David Cameron's desire to cut the number of constituencies no safe seats as previously defined would exist.
  • (18) A line iterative technique is described to solve numerically the resulting coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations with physiologically relevant boundary and entrance conditions.
  • (19) Many Iranian women are already pushing the boundaries , and observers in Tehran say women who drive with their headscarves resting on their shoulders are becoming a familiar sight.
  • (20) And then, as the Guardian revealed at the weekend, there is the potentially devastating effect of the boundary changes, which can’t really be brought in before an early election but will radically tilt the field by 2020.

Conterminous


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samples of breast muscle from 327 ducks collected from October 1970 to March 1971 in the conterminous United States were analyzed for total mercury by flameless atomic absorption spectrometry.
  • (2) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has assisted 30 of the 48 conterminous states in completing statistically designed surveys of indoor 222Rn over the past 4 y.
  • (3) These results suggest that the ascending group I inhibitory pathway, formed by these interneurones, is associated specifically with the group I relay of the dorsal spinocerebellar tract in Clarke's column, rather than being conterminous with group I afferents, which project throughout the rostral lumbar and lowest thoracic segments.
  • (4) Although the rural and nonmetropolitan populations are not conterminous, approximately the same percentage of the nation's population is included in each of the two categories.
  • (5) In a survey of fungi and mycotoxin conterminating acha (Digitaria exilis Stapf) in Plateau State of Nigeria, 96 fungal isolates were made.
  • (6) Thyroid hormone preparations comprised over 1% of all prescriptions filled by retail pharmacies during 1988 in the conterminous United States, i.e., the 48 contiguous states.
  • (7) With the use of data from the Spring 1977 sample of the USDA Nationwide Food Consumption Survey 1977-78, 1- and 3-day nutrient intakes for 8,779 individuals in 22 sex-age groups in the 48 conterminous states were compared.
  • (8) In the P3HR-1 line, BALF-2 encodes a 3.4-kilobase (kb) mRNA during the early phase and a 3.3-kb mRNA during the late phase, and in the Raji line, the probe corresponding to BALF-2 hybridized with three mRNAs of 5.0, 3.1, and 2.4 kb; in P3HR-1 cells, BARF-1 encodes a group of 3'-conterminal transcripts (0.8, 1.2, 1.7, 2.7, 3.2, and 5.0 kb) during both the early and late stages; in Raji cells, however, 0.8-, 1.2-, and 1.7-kb mRNAs are absent, the only mRNAs transcribed being upstream of the deletion and of 5.0, 2.6, and 2.0 kb in size.
  • (9) --The endemic emergence zone is tending to become conterminous with the endemicity area on account of increasing deforestation.
  • (10) Data from the 1975-1976 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics were examined retrospectively to determine the extent to which blood pressure was measured during visits to office-based physicians in the conterminous United States.
  • (11) In addition to connecting homologous cells, gap junctions were present between conterminous serous and mucous cells.

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