(n.) The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
(n.) The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling.
(n.) Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.
(n.) Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
(n.) Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(2) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(3) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
(4) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(5) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
(6) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(7) An inverse relationship between the pumping capacity of the heart and vascular resistance was confirmed at different stages of examination and treatment of the patients.
(8) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(9) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(10) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
(11) In addition to esophageal manometry, we also performed acid-clearance studies and examined salivary output, acid-neutralizing capacity, and bicarbonate concentration.
(12) This capacity is expressed during incubation of the bacteria with the substrate and needs a source of carbon and other energy metabolites.
(13) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(14) Ultraviolet difference spectrophotometry indicates that the inactivated enzyme retains its capacity for binding the nucleotide substrates whereas the spectral perturbation characteristic of 3-phosphoglycerate binding is abolished in the modified enzyme.
(15) The absolute level of ventilatory capacity resembles that of Nepalese children and differs from that of some other groups.
(16) The functional capacity to present antigens to T cells was lacking in normal resting B cells, but was acquired following LK treatment.
(17) The immunodetectable PKC level in hypothyroid liver was elevated 7.7-fold, whereas the phorbol-ester binding capacity and the immunodetectable alpha-PKC level were increased 2.4- and 2.6-fold, respectively.
(18) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
(19) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
(20) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
Omniscience
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this paper the concept of the personal myth was expanded to include similar defensive constellations originating from within the grandiose self, built around omnipotent and omniscient fantasies and occurring in character formations with pregenital, narcissistic pathology.
(2) I quote H. KOHUT's "one's empathy for one-self" which means that it can be an important experience (either in childhood or in therapy) to perceive that neither parents nor therapists are omniscient so that their empathy must be counter-balanced by "one's empathy for one-self".
(3) Privacy as a check on government power represents a constitutional judgment that a limited government must have limited power to inspect our daily lives, and that an omniscient government is too powerful for mere rules to restrain.
(4) Instead of maids and chauffeurs we would have self-driving cars, housecleaning robots and clever, omniscient apps that can monitor, inform and nudge us in real time.
(5) We believe another cycle of hopeful expectance in the quest for psychiatric omniscience and the following period of disillusionment can be avoided.
(6) Between August 1978 and September 1984, 440 patients were implanted with the Omniscience cardiac valve at three North American medical centers (210 aortic, AVR; 165 mitral, MVR; and 65 double valve replacements).
(7) When he arrived in March 2002, Herrington despaired to see that military and civilian interrogators had no idea who their new charges were, reversing the desired dynamic of the “omniscient” interrogator.
(8) The clinical results and hemodynamics were evaluated in 100 cases of aortic valve replacement, using the Omniscience valve, in the period December 1980 through 1984.
(9) False omniscience is a habit that makes people as politically destructive as they are personally annoying, and plenty of people made pronouncements about what was going to happen and what would never happen at Standing Rock that turned out to be wrong.
(10) The physicist's remarks draw a stark line between the use of God as a metaphor and the belief in an omniscient creator whose hands guide the workings of the cosmos.
(11) The Omniscience prosthesis was replaced with a 19-mm St. Jude Medical prosthesis, and the patient's postoperative course has been uneventful.
(12) Our studies on mitral Omniscience valves demonstrated that because anatomic and surgical variations, the anterior orientation was more forgiving than the posterior orientation, resulting in lower thrombotic complications (0.5% versus 3.3% patient-year).
(13) From 1980 to 1985, 154 Omniscience valve prostheses were implanted in 132 patients (mitral in 72, aortic in 33, and both in 27), 81 women and 51 men, aged 22 to 72 years.
(14) The new gods were digital, omniscient, swooping through the stratosphere, recording anyone and anything they chose.
(15) Cumulative follow-up was 88 years (mean 1.7 years) for the Björk-Shiley, 229 years (mean 1.5 years) for the Medtronic-Hall, and 223 years (mean 3.3 years) for the Omniscience group.
(16) Isis under airstrikes – a guide in maps Read more The move marked a decisive shift away from putting all the organisation’s efforts into holding on to lands it had conquered in Syria and Iraq – a cause it acknowledged could not prevail against 14 different air forces and the omniscient eavesdropping powers of its foes.
(17) This 57-year-old female of MS had been treated by MVR with a 25 mm Omniscience valve on October 26, 1983.
(18) Between June, 1980, and September, 1983, 70 patients received the Omniscience prosthesis, 159 patients the Medtronic-Hall valve, and 60 patients the convexo-concave 70 degree Björk-Shiley prosthesis.
(19) The prosthetic valves used were St Jude Medical (SJM), Starr-Edwards ball (S-E), monostrut Björk-Shiley (mB-S), Omniscience (OS), Omnicarbon (OC), Carpentier-Edwards Supra-annular (C-Es) and Carpentier Edwards Pericardial (C-Ep) whose tissue annulus diameter was 27 mm.
(20) The pressure gradients of St. Jude Medical (SJM) valve (11 cases), Björk-Shiley (B-S) valve (7 cases), Lillehei-Kaster (L-K) valve (13 cases) and Omniscience (O-S) valve (33 cases) was evaluated to compare the hemodynamic characteristics in the long term follow-up periods.