What's the difference between chevron and minimum?

Chevron


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
  • (n.) A distinguishing mark, above the elbow, on the sleeve of a non-commissioned officer's coat.
  • (n.) A zigzag molding, or group of moldings, common in Norman architecture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The osteotomies were biplanar neck, Chevron, biplanar basilar, basilar concentric, and basilar concentric combined with a lateral closing wedge.
  • (2) Companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and Halliburton (and many more) have all made key investments in building permanent advocacy assets and programs to support their lobbying, outreach and policy efforts,” the documents say .
  • (3) However, averaged crossbridge structure differs between lead and rear members of double chevrons, unlike the uniform heads on decorated actin.
  • (4) The two sides are set to go to court on 15 November, when Chevron will ask a court to reject the ruling from Ecuador .
  • (5) The approach was a subcostal chevron incision coupled with a midline sternotomy.
  • (6) Photograph: Alamy “I have had to spend a lot of money in getting an inverter to reduce what I spend on fuel for my generator,” says Osikhena Dirisu, a radio personality at the popular Beat FM, who lives in one of the estates next to the headquarters of Chevron.
  • (7) This is a retrospective study of two different types of fixation for the offset-V modification of the Chevron (Austin) bunionectomy for correction of hallux abducto valgus deformity.
  • (8) Two area 18 cells responded consistently better to a chevron stimulus than to a straight line of any orientation.
  • (9) These contacts had smooth external surfaces and were often arranged in chevron-shaped complexes.
  • (10) Chevron spokesman Kent Robertson said the Ecuadorians were guilty of "shocking levels of misconduct."
  • (11) The plaintiffs claim Chevron's operations discharged billions of gallons of toxic waste into Amazon lands, affecting over 1,500 square miles of the Amazon, causing cancer rates to soar, destroying locals' livelihoods and habitats, and killing flora and fauna.
  • (12) Chevron remains committed to building constructive and positive relationships with the communities where we operate.” But local people in the area covered by Chevron’s concession, claim that such relationships went beyond what might be reasonably termed constructive.
  • (13) They incorporated a chevron fusion technique previously described.
  • (14) Preliminary observations showed that the effect occurs also in chevron figures, in an afterimage of the arc figure, and haptically in arc- and chevron-shaped objects.
  • (15) The sole exception was the Chevron World Challenge at the tail end of last year, when he birdied the final two holes to hold off Zach Johnson for victory.
  • (16) Chevrons and curved targets show the same pattern of results.
  • (17) However, four of the 10 (40%) patients who had a Chevron osteotomy plus a lateral adductor release developed osteonecrosis.
  • (18) In cells with dissimilarly tuned half fields, the skew in chevron tuning was predictable from the orientation tuning of each half of the receptive field.
  • (19) In the latest stage of its campaign against deep sea drilling, Greenpeace has targeted a 228m long ship owned by the US oil giant Chevron which had been preparing to set sail to drill in about 500m of water some 150km north of Shetland.
  • (20) Their chevron shapes are inset with cowls and scoops, giving them the air of a certain kind of painted, post-industrial abstract relief I haven't seen in years.

Minimum


Definition:

  • (n.) The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to maximum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
  • (2) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
  • (3) These results suggest that a certain minimum level of expression of c-myc is required for the maintenance of ras transformation in NIH 3T3 cells.
  • (4) Due to continued disease relapse in this group (four of eight patients), long-term survivors should not be identified for a minimum of 3.5 years from the time of initial therapy.
  • (5) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
  • (6) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
  • (7) Analysis was performed on all patients who received any amount of therapy (VSG) and on the Adequately Treated Group (ATG), who had received 5000 or more rads radiotherapy, two or more courses of chemotherapy, and had a minimum survival of 8 or more weeks (the interval that would have been required to have received either the radiotherapy or chemotherapy).
  • (8) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
  • (9) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (10) It was shown that the levels of ATP and ADP in the mycelium depended on the carbon source: the maximum and minimum ATP concentrations were found on the glucose and acetate media respectively, the maximum and minimum ADP concentrations showed inverse dependence.
  • (11) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
  • (12) The activity was maximum at the 16-32-cell stage and then decreased to a minimum at the mesenchyme blastula stage.
  • (13) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
  • (14) The 30-fold chromosomally mediated and 15-fold R-plasmid NT resistance were 3- and 5-fold respectively reduced by a minimum inhibitory combination of Tp + NT.
  • (15) Minimum inhibitory concentrations for these four antibiotics have been determined against 393 bacterial strains (13 species from eight genera) isolated from clinical materialKanamycin was the least active, 89% of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains being resistant.
  • (16) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
  • (17) A minimum of 4 sheeps' heads, obtained weekly over 24 months from the Pretoria Municipal Abattoir, was examined for infestation.
  • (18) Variations in bioavailability and intestinal absorption are important factors in the determination of dosage and should be reduced to a minimum by improved pharmaceutical formulations.
  • (19) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
  • (20) The minimum contraction produced by the threshold current involved usually three or four, sometimes two, sarcomers on both sides of the injecting pipette but contraction involving only one sarcomere was not observered.