(v. i.) To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
(2) Electromagnetic flow probes with an inner diameter of 2, 1.5 and 1 nm were used for studies on zero-line drifting and for calibration procedures in a series of rats and rabbits.
(3) Thus, the carotid pulse tracing provides an accurate reproduction of the morphology of the pressure tracing recorded from the ascending aorta, and when calibrated by peripheral blood pressure measurement, it can be used to calculate LV pressure throughout ejection.
(4) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
(5) The reference material, which must behave immunochemically the same as the patient's sample in all methods, is then used to assign a target value to the calibrator in each method and system.
(6) We conclude that the use of the multi-point calibration procedure presented in this article (based on calibration according to the instructions of the manufacturer and NCCLS EP-9P) greatly improves the intra-laboratory comparability and therefore should be part of multi-centre evaluations.
(7) Standard additions are unnecessary; Pt concentrations are read from a calibration chart of peak heights, which is linear up to 1.6 mg per liter.
(8) different plasmas representing seven levels of anticoagulation between international calibrated ratios (ICRs) from 1.5 to 4.5.
(9) The effect of nicotine on the nervous system during rapid smoking of two calibrated cigarettes was measured in twenty subjects: light, medium, heavy and non-smokers, across the changes of a number of electrophysiological variables and in different situations.
(10) The system established for control indicates the performance characteristics of each batch of thromboplastin in patients relative to a national calibration batch.
(11) Calibration is performed in the presence of the color additive by using the external standard method.
(12) Very good stability of the calibration curves (up to 2 months).
(13) Tone pulses and noise stimuli were mixed acoustically and presented using calibrated, sealed stimulating systems.
(14) Because flow and velocity are related, it is possible to estimate flow from velocity measurements with careful calibration and proper precautions.
(15) Calibrators and samples were prepared by mixing 200 microL of whole blood and 200 microL precipitation reagent and centrifuging at 10,000 rpm for 5 min (9600 x g).
(16) The calibration curve is expressed as a ratio of the activity bound to a different concentration of hormone and is described by a linear function with a correlation coefficient higher than 0.995.
(17) They also exhibited variations in calibre and sudden obstructions.
(18) The calibrated aperture in the bottom of each well is small enough to retain fluid contents by surface tension during monolayer growth, but also permits fluid to enter the wells when transfer plates are lowered into receptacles containing washing buffer or test sera.
(19) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
(20) Satisfactory calibrations for lactose were obtained with the 2 Milko-scan 203 models with standard errors of estimate of 0.034 and 0.033%.
Chock
Definition:
(v. t.) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.
(v. i.) To fill up, as a cavity.
(n.) A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.
(n.) A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.
(1) He channelled his new-found creative freedom into making club-focused hip-hop, chock-full of tongue-twisting put-downs that would give Minaj a run for her Benjamins.
(2) Had the Mayans been skilled in predicting the future, they might have foreseen that a week already chock-full with jobs undone, frantic present buying and horrific office parties was hardly the best time to trouble people with the bothersome chore of preparing for the apocalypse.
(3) "Women-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power," Plath writes.
(4) "I got in line around 11pm, and beyond the line the plaza was chock full with people," said Huang Xiantong, 26, outside the store.
(5) The term chocking is both inaccurate and inappropriate in describing the cause of death in motor neurone disease and its use should be abandoned.
(6) The current shadow cabinet is full of people who are chock full of good ideas but unable to get them across.
(7) "It's not rocket science to know that that part of London would at least be chock-a-block with displaced traffic."
(8) The activation of the ATP,Mg-dependent protein phosphatase [Fc.M] has been shown to involve a transient phosphorylation of the modulator subunit (M) and consequent isomerization of the catalytic subunit (Fc) into its active conformation (Jurgensen, S., Shacter, E., Huang, C. Y., Chock, P. B., Yang, S. -D., Vandenheede, J. R., and Merlevede, W. (1984) J. Biol.
(9) Rapid incorporation of exogenous arachidonic acid into phospholipid has been detected in conjunction with eicosanoid synthesis by purified mast cell granules [Chock, S. P. & Schmauder-Chock, E. A.
(10) (Tokyo) 91, 1809-1812; Sellers, J. R., Chock, P. B., and Adelstein, R. S. (1983) J. Biol.
(11) So now we’re dealing with miles of roads around every supermarket being chock-a-block with sheepish, over-zealous consumers parking up to return the goods that were never needed, like someone making themselves sick on the morning of a hangover.
(12) But it is chock full of good people who are very diverse.
(13) 143-154, Elsevier Science publisher) and limited proteolysis of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase with yeast proteinase B (Pohlig, G., Schäfer, W., v. Herrath, M. and Holzer, H. (1984) in "Current topics in cellular regulation" (S. Shaltiel and P. Boon Chock, eds.)
(14) If excellence is an ageing network of broken roads chock-full of luxury cars and overladen lorries constantly harassed by motorbikes and the unruly drivers of Danfo buses, then I suggest we aspire to something else.
(15) But in a division chock full of imperfect champions, the wisest tack may be to expect the unexpected.
(16) Over the next three years, 2.4 acres of this site will be transformed into a million square feet of an 11-storey headquarters for the internet giant Google , no doubt chock-a-block with colourful Big Brother -house-style sofas and surreal chill-out zones that mark out its other 70 offices in 40 countries.
(17) Outside of a relatively small percentage of high-quality sites, most of the web is chock full of pop-up ads and other interruptive come-ons.
(18) Moreover, plasma endothelin concentration is elevated during acute myocardial infarction, in acute renal failure, in patients with hypertension, and during cardiogenic chock.
(19) Thylakoids altered by osmotic chock are sensitized to agglutination.
(20) Inside the partly open-air space, chock full of football scarves and decades of photos, some of the city's friendliest waiters navigate the fun with grace and efficiency.