(n.) A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).
Example Sentences:
(1) In three patients a mechanically well-fixed Mathys Ceros 80 (Ha) hydroxyapatite-coated acetabular component was revised 2, 5 and 13 months after total hip replacement due to component malposition.
(2) 1,2-Di-(5Z,9Z)-5,9-hexacosadienoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosph oethanolamine was found in both organisms, while 1,2-di(5Z,9Z,19Z)-5,9,19-hexacosatrienoyl-sn-gly cero-3-phosphoethanolamine was present in M. prolifera, 1,2-Di-(4Z,7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z,19Z)-4,7,1 0,13,16,19-docosahexaenoyl-sn-glycero-3- phosphocholine was the major molecular species in the PC fraction of M. prolifera.
(3) The overall mortality was 5.8% for the group studied and cero for the control group (p greater than 0.05) and was shown to be more related with prematurity than with the latent period of PRM.
(4) The Valencia reporter for Onda Cero radio called it a “lack of respect”, while in AS it was described sarcastically as “English humour”.
(5) Successive governments responded with "cero tolerancia" and "mano dura" (hard hand), which means sending soldiers and police on raids into the slums, shooting gang members who "resisted arrest" and jailing others for long stretches.
(6) Beta-Tricalcium phosphate granulates (Ceros 82) implanted in femurs of the rat led to osteoconduction already one week after implantation.
(7) Before that second confrontation Matallanas spoke to Onda Cero radio and related the conversation, saying: “I have no idea why.
(8) "In principle, it looks like not all of (the €100bn) will be used," De Guindos told Onda Cero radio.
(9) They always do: as Santiago Segurola put it on Onda Cero radio on Wednesday night: “If there’s an ‘author’s team’ in Spain now, it is probably Celta”, built according to their manager Eduardo Berizzo’s belief in a particular way of playing and his players’ willingness to put that into practice.
(10) He told the Spanish radio station Onda Cero: “I’m still not at that moment, I want all this [in Brazil] to end as soon as possible, go on holiday, disconnect a little and then decide things with time.
(11) The hysteresis decrease with the number of stress cycles and approaches asymptotically to cero.
(12) Incluso la alimentación de los bebés recién nacidos en la ciudad puede tener cierta influencia: en 2012, sólo el 9% de los bebés de cero a seis meses fueron alimentados exclusivamente con leche materna en la Ciudad de México, en comparación con 14% de los bebés en el resto del país.
(13) Grudge match Mexico are the perennial regional rivals – USA fans like to chant " Dos a cero " after a string of recent scorelines.
(14) The PP’s Esteban González Pons told Onda Cero radio on Friday: “In Brussels, everybody is clear that debt forgiveness is not possible, that Greece’s debts cannot be forgiven and that they’ll have to live up to their obligations in some way or another.” This article was amended on 31 January 2015 to correct the number of buses expected to bring Podemos supporters to Madrid.
(15) "We hope this [pressure] stops and that people realise there's an election here and that the party that wins has the right to a minimum margin," the PP leader told Onda Cero radio in remarks reported by the Associated Press.
Zero
Definition:
(n.) A cipher; nothing; naught.
(n.) The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences.
(n.) Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his patience had nearly reached zero.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(2) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(3) The final model has a probability 0.08 of underlying survival time being zero and, given non-zero survival time, takes the form of an exponential distribution with mean of 14.95 months.
(4) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
(5) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(6) 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.
(7) The open probability is weakly voltage dependent, large at zero and positive potentials (cytoplasm minus SR lumen), and decreasing at negative potentials.
(8) Stepwise depolarizations from the holding potential (-67 to -83 mV) to a potential which varied from -10 to +63 mV resulted in an exponential decline of h from its initial level to a final, non-zero level.
(9) Average increases in nonvellus hair counts between months 4 and 12 were 216, 181, and 264 in the 2% minoxidil, 3% minoxidil, and placebo-to-3% minoxidil crossover groups, respectively, all highly significant differences from zero (p = 0.0001).
(10) For data sampled at a high rate (approximately 200 Hz) pupil velocity deviations from zero can simply be used, giving a satisfactory inaccuracy of about 5 ms. For data sampled at a low rate (less than 50 Hz), e.g.
(11) In 15 patients undergoing aortofemoral bypass, partial thromboplastin time (PTT) tests before and following intravenous administration of 75 U. per kilogram of heparin at zero, 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes were determined for study of control of anticoagulant adequacy.
(12) As an index of inhomogeneous distribution of inspired air, the mean dilution number (the ratio of the first to zero moments) was calculated from each multibreath nitrogen washout during spontaneous breathing.
(13) Blood pressure was measured with a random-zero sphygmomanometer every 2 weeks of this 8-week trial.
(14) Pairwise correlation between an affected parent and child is zero: The disease is monogenic (no major expression gene).
(15) Where no fluoride was taken zero dmf scores were 41-69 per cent.
(16) He deploys a zero-risk strategy aimed at keeping his rightwing political base behind him, while convincing the public that he alone could lead the country in times of regional turmoil.
(17) Furthermore, the value of the flux ratio for this substance under conditions of zero electrochemical potential across the bowel wall unequivocally demonstrates active transport.
(18) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
(19) A reduction of tidal volume to zero or an increase by 30% led to a corresponding change of mean carotid artery pH level.
(20) The incidence of probable type B viral hepatitis in patients receiving factor IX concentrate was 13.8 percent (four of 29) versus zero percent (zero of 29) in control patients (difference not significant).