(n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
(n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
(n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
(n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
(n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
(n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
(n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
(n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
(n.) See Carom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a sample of 170 patients the psychopathological contents of the AMP system and the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) were compared by canonical correlations.
(2) Canonical discriminant function analysis of the relationship between these predictor variables on the first testing and whether participants (a) returned for retesting, (b) did not return because of apparent disinterest, or (c) did not return because of illness or death, revealed two significant canonical variates.
(3) Previous studies have documented transcription initiation sites and nuclease hypersensitive sites upstream of the epsilon-globin canonical cap site in K562 cells.
(4) The increased specificity of restriction endonucleases in the presence of spermidine is due to an enhancement of the cleavage rate at the canonical site and a slowing down of the cleavage rate at related sites.
(5) Canonical structures are not available for H3 due to its variability in length, sequence, and observed conformation in known antibody structures.
(6) A canonical promoter "TATA" box is located 30 base pairs upstream of the Cap site.
(7) The first canonical correlations were significant between risk factors and both sets of anthropometric variables (skinfolds, 0.36-0.46; circumferences, 0.39-0.54).
(8) Tyr1235 lies within the tyrosine kinase domain of p190MET, within a canonical tyrosine autophosphorylation site that shares homology with the corresponding region of the insulin, CSF-1 and platelet-derived growth factor receptors, and of p60src and p130gag-fps.
(9) On reversed sequences they vacillated between reproducing the events as modeled and "correcting" them to canonical order.
(10) Darkroom measures of tonic accommodation were determined using the infrared objective autorefractor, Canon Autoref R-1.
(11) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
(12) Resulting from the apparent use of a cryptic splice acceptor site in place of the canonical intron 5 site, this insertion is predicted to generate an in-frame insertion of five nonpolar amino acid residues within a highly polar region of the intracytoplasmic domain of the H-2K polypeptide.
(13) The findings were compared to those reported by Canon (1970) and were applied to a reassessment of the "visual capture" phenomenon.
(14) The output relation for the canonically simplest class of self-regulated incompletely coupled linear energy converters has been shown to be identical to the Hill force-velocity characteristic for muscle.
(15) The flanking regions of the gene contain the canonical elements typical for initiation and termination of transcription of yeast protein coding genes.
(16) It follows from the model that modifications of the first anticodon residue of the P-site tRNA can affect the stability of the A-site duplex, and that the translation of a DNA single chain analogue of mRNA should be accompanied by non-canonical base pairing at all three positions of the codon.
(17) The women remained defiant throughout the trial, issuing powerful closing statements that quickly entered the canon of Russia's dissident speeches.
(18) This work proposes that the approximately 200-residue binding segment of the canonical cytokine receptor is composed of two discrete folding domains that share a significant sequence and structural resemblance.
(19) Associations were examined by use of linear correlation, stepwise multiple regression, and canonical correlation analyses.
(20) We also found that a single OmpR-binding site can activate the ompC promoter, providing that the binding site is close and placed stereospecifically with respect to the canonical-35 and -10 regions.
Classic
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Classical
(n.) A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.
(n.) One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.
Example Sentences:
(1) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(3) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(4) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
(5) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
(6) N-Methoxysulphonamides showed no inhibitory activity, as predicted by the classic work of Krebs on N-substituted inhibitors.
(7) The interactions of 3 classical alpha-adrenergic antihypertensives of prevalently central type (St 155 or clonidine St 600; BR 750 or guanabenz) with the narcotic effects of pentobarbital have been investigated in the Mus musculus.
(8) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(9) We have characterized the binding of the selective muscarinic antagonist [3H]pirenzepine ([3H])PZ) and the classical muscarinic antagonist (-)-[3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate ((-)-[3H]QNB) to muscarinic cholinergic sites in rabbit peripheral lung membranes.
(10) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
(12) Usually they are characterized by an increased level of complement components involved in the classical pathway and therefore reflect activation by antigen antibody complexes.
(13) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(14) Classically, parathormone is known to increase bony reabsorption and raise serum calcium.
(15) Twelve mutations were searched for using classical techniques of molecular biology in a total of 126 patients.
(16) Here we compare this revised technique to the classical sucrose density centrifugation procedure.
(17) This study demonstrates that a second classical neurotransmitter, dopamine, can act to suppress regenerative neurite outgrowth.
(18) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(19) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
(20) Detection of the noncarboxylated forms allows an indirect and specific measure of the vitamin K deficiency found in early, classic, and late hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN), malabsorption syndromes, and drug related (warfarin, anticonvulsants, and antibiotics) states.