(n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
(n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
(n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
(n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
(n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
(n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
(v. t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.
Example Sentences:
(1) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(2) In 1:1 saturated complexes with the octamers [d(GGATATCC)]2 and [d(GGTTAACC)]2, [N-MeCys3,N-MeCys7]TANDEM binds to each octamer as a bis-intercalator bracketing the TpA step.
(3) Simply lengthening the working age bracket is a potential disaster, unless the inequalities at the heart of the policy are addressed in a detailed and sensible way and we achieve full employment.
(4) When either predictability or bond strength was considered independently, several bracket systems, coupled with a particular etch time, had either high predictability or high bond strength.
(5) The plaque situation around the brackets and along the gingival margins and the gingival condition were assessed according to the criteria of the plaque and gingival index systems by a dental hygienist at each monthly visit during a test period of 6 months.
(6) When pseudorabies virus (PrV) strains are grown in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF), variants ("translocation" mutants) arise in which there is a duplication of the leftmost sequences of the genome and their translocation in inverted orientation next to the internal inverted repeat bracketing the S component.
(7) In 2010 there were 2,525 City workers with in the €1m-plus pay bracket with average pay of €2.3m and with a much higher ratio, 611% of variable pay to fixed salary.
(8) The results showed that moment-to-force values at the bracket level for translation of a tooth decreased with shorter root length and increased with lower alveolar bone height.
(9) The bracket junction is compared with the vertebrate gap junction in terms of both structure and possible roles in facilitating the permeation of the cell by small molecules.
(10) Thirty-seven patients entered the trial, and a total of 407 brackets were placed.
(11) The purpose of this in vitro study was to determine the tensile bond strengths (TBS) of several orthodontic bonding systems and orthodontic brackets to enamel surfaces exposed to different etching procedures.
(12) A pulsed Nd:YAG laser was used to etch the enamel surfaces of teeth in vivo prior to the bonding of orthodontic brackets with composite resin.
(13) 6) The strongest bond strength between bracket and etched enamel was obtained with the direct-bonding adhesive containing 2SEM under all conditions.
(14) The frequencies of 80 HLA antigen phenotypes in 82 centenarians and 20 nonagenarians in Okinawa, Japan, were compared with those in other healthy adults in various age-brackets.
(15) Only three brackets were lost during the experiment.
(16) The tensile bond strength of bracket bases coated with metal plasma were examined.
(17) They certainly aren't anywhere near the middle, as only 14% of earners hit the 40% bracket.
(18) The surface features of incipient caries lesions around bonded orthodontic brackets were assessed longitudinally.
(19) For the point of no-net-flux method, animals were perfused with 4 concentrations of DA or DOPAC, bracketing the extracellular concentrations.
(20) Inherent defects seen in the morphology of polycrystalline ceramic brackets severely limit their fracture strength.
Cantilever
Definition:
(n.) Same as Cantalever.
Example Sentences:
(1) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
(2) The measuring devices consisted of four strain-gauge transducers uniformly and bilaterally mounted in pontics of maxillary bridges to represent the posterior (end abutment and distal cantilever respectively) and anterior regions.
(3) Infraoccluding the second cantilever units approximately 100 microns caused a pronounced reduction of both the total closing and chewing forces over the entire prosthetic restoration as well as over the cantilever segments, and also resulted in a marked (50%) decrease in the leverage at the cantilever joints.
(4) The study also shows that cantilever pontics can be used to achieve and maintain the stability of fixed bridgework.
(5) Equations are presented for the calculation of mass, inertia, stress distribution, strain, deflection curve, compliance, and resonant frequency of uniform or nonuniform cantilever beams made of structural materials of different density or elastic modulus.
(6) This investigation was undertaken in order to analyse to what extent the magnitudes of chewing and biting forces in dentitions restored with cross-arch unilateral posterior two-unit cantilever bridges are correlated to the area of the periodontal tissue supporting the abutments.
(7) Stabilization of the transplant required a cantilevered acrylic resin splint--because of the absence of the second molar--as a terminal splint abutment.
(8) The results show that the force distribution depends not only on the occlusal contact pattern and the dimensioning of the cantilever beam, but also on the type of prosthetic construction in the opposite jaw occluding with the cantilever segment.
(9) The 4 modes of failure characterizing stem-type component progressive loosening mechanisms consisted of stem pistoning within the acrylic (3.3%), cement-embedded stem pistoning with the femur (5.1%), medial midstem pivot (2.5%), calcar pivot (0.7%) and bending (fatigue) cantilever (3.3%).
(10) An AFM was used that combines microfabricated cantilevers with a previously described optical lever system to monitor deflection.
(11) The main aims of this thesis were (1) to study the functional characteristics of dentitions with mandibular implant-supported fixed cantilever prostheses - IFCP s- occluding with complete dentures, (2) to study in detail the magnitudes and distributions of axially directed closing and chewing forces in such dentitions, (3) to study the influence of number and distribution of occlusal contacts on the magnitude and distribution of closing and chewing forces, (4) to assess the vertical bending moment and the resulting vertical bending stress in the cantilever joints and (5) to find out whether the force distribution over the cantilever beams and the resulting vertical bending stress in the cantilever joint are influenced by the type of prosthetic construction in the opposing jaw.
(12) Infraoccluding the distal cantilever unit by 80 microns had little influence on the magnitude of the initially small local force in this region, whereas an 80 microns high primary occlusal contact considerably increased the local force over the distal cantilever unit.
(13) Furthermore, lingual brackets are cantilevered a substantial distance from the labial surfaces, making the vertical height of the brackets vary with the torque angle of the labial surfaces and also making torquing adjustments affect not only the torque of the labial surfaces but also their heights.
(14) A force-voltage calibration curve was then derived for the fibers by modelling them as cantilever beams subjected to point forces at the tips.
(15) For total reconstruction of the nose, a frontal flap with a primary cantilever bone graft as described by Millard (1966) is suggested.
(16) The average intraindividual ratio between the forces over the first and second cantilever unit amounted to 12:1 for maximal occlusion and 3:1 for maximal chewing.
(17) Mandibular prostheses supported by implants placed between the mandibular foramina restrict the length of the distally cantilevered components to minimize torque-related stress to the supporting implants.
(18) The combination of an (AFM) atomic force microscope together with microfabricated cantilevers that have integrated tips opens many possibilities for imaging systems of great importance in biology.
(19) This is a peculiar stadium, plonked on a red clay, São Paulo hillside with views of the city fringes through its great cantilevered corners.
(20) The case described involved the use of etch retained porcelain restorations and includes a porcelain cantilever laminate bridge.