(a.) In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.
(a.) repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.
(a.) Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic.
(a.) Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter.
(a.) Perfect; complete.
(a.) A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.
(a.) A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.
Example Sentences:
(1) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(2) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
(3) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
(4) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
(5) After methylene blue, the gradient in resting potential across the circular layer was greatly reduced or abolished.
(6) Circular dichroism (CD) spectra indicating different local orientation of oxazolone, when coupled to L or D side chain-terminating amino acids, support this suggestion.
(7) The alpha-helical content of the free form of the lipoprotein was measured from the circular dichroism spectrum of the lipoprotein in 0.01% sodium dodecyl sulfate and found to be 87%.
(8) Parameters affecting assembly of these complexes were sequences in circular DNA templates, sizes and sequences of linear DNA templates, temperature and incubation time.
(9) The mechanisms underlying the biphasic response (BR) of the circular muscle of the guinea pig ileum (CMGPI) to bradykinin (BK) have been examined.
(10) The distribution and lateral mobility of VDCCs on CA1 hippocampal neurons have been determined with biologically active fluorescent and biotinylated derivatives of the selective probe omega-conotoxin in conjunction with circular dityndallism, digital fluorescence imaging, and photobleach recovery microscopy.
(11) The structure of the Z-helix antigen was confirmed by circular dichroism (CD) and U.V.
(12) Dustin Benton Dustin Benton, head of resource stewardship, Green Alliance Creating a circular economy will take action in three areas: the economy, policy and politics, and innovation.
(13) Anastomotic devascularization has been incriminated in the development of post-operative complications (fistula, stenosis) of circular stapling.
(14) If people approach it in the right way and we show that this is a development agenda – it’s competitiveness, it’s jobs – then why wouldn’t it be adopted.” Read more like this: How much do you know about the circular economy?
(15) When the method proposed by Trela (1975) is applied, thin layers of the petrous crest are chiselled out until the common crus of the superior and posterior semi-circular becomes apparent.
(16) A comparison of the conformation of Folch-Pi apoprotein in organic solvent and in aqueous solutions has been made by ESR, infrared and circular dichroism spectroscopy studies.
(17) In the group of malignant schizophrenia, irrespective of the stage of the disease and in the group of circular forms there was a definite drop in the activity of cytochromoxidase, succinatedehydrogenase and MAO, while as the activity of the ATP-ase and peroxidase was increased.
(18) Circular cuts which surgically isolated the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH) from the remainder of the brain did not prevent copulation 4 to 24 h later, but did block reflex ovulation.
(19) Monodispersed N- and C-protected linear homo-oligomethionines (n = 2- -7) are studied by measurements of circular dichroism in the vacuum ultraviolet region.
(20) The first stage is characterized by circular disturbances of conditioned activity, vegetative shifts of compensatory character and intensification of individual characteristics of behaviour.
Rotary
Definition:
(a.) Turning, as a wheel on its axis; pertaining to, or resembling, the motion of a wheel on its axis; rotatory; as, rotary motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty Parkinson's (PD) patients and 20 normal control subjects performed two procedural learning tasks (rotary pursuit and mirror reading) and one declarative learning task (paired associates) over 3 days.
(2) One significant concern involves the rotary vane aspirators used to provide the suction required for the procedure.
(3) Also, induced rotary movement and cyclorotational optokinetic nystagmus are affected differently by the velocity of eliciting stimulation.
(4) Direct two-component rotary diffusion constant analysis is found to be too strongly affected by cross modulation between small systematic errors and physically significant data components to be a reliable measure of structural modification.
(5) rotary-pursuit tracking and rehearsal of tracking or rotary-pursuit tracking and object-slide naming (nonrehearsal).
(6) Each performed 14 trials on a rotary pursuit task (30-sec.
(7) The more serious sequelae must be ascribed either to rotary deformity or to ulnar angulation at the fracture-site.
(8) However, in free fall even without head tilts there was a significant suppression of nystagmus relative to 1 G and 1.8 G force backgrounds, thus potentially masking an effect of head tilt on suppression in 0 G. We have retested four of the original subjects with 90 degrees head tilts to maximize the likelihood of detecting suppression in 0 G. Although nystagmus and illusory after-rotation were suppressed by post-rotary head tilts in normal and high gravitoinertial force environments, there was still no evidence of suppression in free fall.
(9) Rotary shadowing showed that 1A6 and 6F6 both recognize the same end of type X, probably the aminoterminal non-triple helical domain.
(10) Regarding cyclorotational optokinetic nystagmus, available evidence shows that it is too weak to be important in induced rotary movement.
(11) Included in the thermal destruction category are treatment technologies such as rotary kiln incineration, fluidized bed incineration, infrared thermal treatment, wet air oxidation, pyrolytic incineration, and vitrification.
(12) Holding strength and drilling force were compared against a traditional rotary drill using rabbit tibias to approximate the diameter and cortical thickness of human metacarpals.
(13) Two applications for the Golgi-Cox method (using the rotary wire saw) are described: one eliminates specimen freezing and embedding while the other uses LR-White instead of celloidin, reducing preparation time.
(14) Serial blood samples were obtained in addition to performance measures of rotary pursuit and a simple force choice reaction time.
(15) Rotary-replication of quick-frozen, etched postsynaptic membranes enhanced the visibility of these surface protuberances and illustrated that they often occur in dimers, tetramers, and ordered rows.
(16) In turbidity experiments, the presence of heparin, even in small concentrations, drastically reduced maximal aggregation of type IV collagen which was prewarmed to 37 degrees C. By using the morphological approach of rotary shadowing, lateral associations and network formation by prewarmed type IV collagen were inhibited in the presence of heparin.
(17) This device was used to study the ultrastructural features of the erythrocyte membrane skeleton and the immunocytochemical localization of spectrin in an "in situ" approach, by freeze drying and platinum rotary shadowing.
(18) Attenuation of the vestibular response to rotary acceleration in free-fall causes sensory-motor mismatches during natural head movements in orbital flight that may be important factors in the evocation of space motion sickness.
(19) Quadriceps rehabilitation, pes anserines transfers and semimembranosus transfers were thought not to influence anterolateral rotary instability.
(20) The nystagmus was reduced, and there was virtual absence of the rotary head motion.