(a.) Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.
(a.) Incidental; relating to, but not essential.
(a.) Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.
(n.) Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circumstantial evidence indicated that in the field; the incubation period of P multocida in a turkey flock may be between 2 to 7 weeks.
(2) There are major difficulties in diagnosing hypoglycaemia post-mortem, but the timing of death and other circumstantial evidence suggests that hypoglycaemia or a hypoglycaemia-associated event was responsible.
(3) Evidence for transmission of swine influenza virus to humans before 1974 is minimal and circumstantial.
(4) These results provide circumstantial evidence that hypothalamic H may have a role in the hypothalamo-hypophyseal-gonadal axis in the male rat.
(5) Circumstantial evidence has provided much support for the idea that some relationship exists between sex hormones and serum lipid content.
(6) As the evidence gained in favour of a given function of primary cilia has, so far, always been circumstantial, extreme caution in interpretation must be exercise.
(7) Except for an associated benign odontogenic tumor or a cyst, evidence for an odontogenic origin is only circumstantial.
(8) and circumstantial evidence in the literature seemed to imply that the raising of the hepatic glutathione concentration above normal was not accompanied by a rise in the rate of sinusoidal efflux.
(9) Sufficient circumstantial evidence is available indicating that catecholamines together with protein carbohydrate complexes are contained in these cells within the membrane bound cytoplasmic granules.
(10) Circumstantial evidence indicates that anomalous K+ channels are directly activated by alpha subunits of Gi, but not Go, proteins.
(11) They add circumstantial weight to the reports on the Trump campaign’s Kremlin links compiled last year and passed to the FBI by a former MI6 officer, Christopher Steele.
(12) The histologic characteristics favor a vascular cause for the condition, but the evidence is circumstantial.
(13) It has been suspected on circumstantial clinical evidence in a few patients (17.5%) who have been successfully treated by simple enucleation.
(14) The same procedures are being followed – arrest as many as you can and present a circumstantial case in the hope that at least some of them will be convicted.
(15) These drugs also present good circumstantial evidence for minor groove interaction of B-DNA.
(16) Circumstantial evidence has pointed to the conversion of alcohol to aldehyde in skin as the cause of cinnamic alcohol sensitization.
(17) This unusual pattern noted in two homicides found two weeks apart, in concert with other circumstantial evidence, led to the successful conviction of the man for both murders.
(18) However, circumstantial evidence is beginning to provide a tenuous link between smoking and the protease-antiprotease imbalance hypothesis.
(19) Reduction of endothelial loss on reperfusion by the use of verapamil and desferrioxamine provides circumstantial evidence that ischemia and reperfusion damage of organs stored for transplantation is partly due to Fe++(+)- and Ca+(+)-dependent mechanisms that probably involve increased free radical production.
(20) Our results provide circumstantial support to a monoclonal hypothesis for human embryonic hemopoiesis, based on migration of stem and early progenitor cells from a generation site (YS) to a colonization site (L) via circulating blood.
Fictitious
Definition:
(a.) Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
Example Sentences:
(1) So, they start to create these almost fictitious things they can sell, whether it’s a prime shelf [at the height a shopper is most likely to see] or a gondola end [the promotional buckets often found at the top of the aisle].
(2) Participants in these three groups responded to questions regarding the ethical parameters of a fictitious psychological research protocol.
(3) Synchronization of fictitious scratching with passive moving occurred at the first movement cycle, the phase correlation between them being contrary to that of real scratching.
(4) Allegations of mistreatment by adults made by children of preschool age are often dismissed as fictitious with the suggestion that children of this age are prone to fantasy and unable to discriminate fact from fiction.
(5) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.
(6) Conrad's fictitious province of Sulaco broke away from a South American republic named Costaguana, over a silver mine.
(7) Far from absurd and fictitious, state-led cyber espionage is perfectly logical and real.
(8) The survival signature, i.e., the functional dependence of cell survival from cooling rate (determined at a single location), for a fictitious cell kind is also influenced by the location of temperature determination: the "optimum" cooling rate seems to be shifted, and the shape of the signature is changed depending on the location where the cooling rate is determined.
(9) The response to this criticism is usually a spirited defense of the social worker investigation and data distinguishing false ("fictitious") claims from unsubstantiated cases.
(10) Sitting with him as he spoke were Sigourney Weaver and Joel David Moore, who starred in Avatar , which charts the fight of the fictitious Na'vi people against outside attempts to pillage their resources on the planet Pandora.
(11) Fictitious scratching was accompanied by tonic and phasic primary afferent depolarization.
(12) Spiders starting at the fictitious retreat point did not keep straight courses.
(13) China reacted angrily calling the charges "fictitious" and "absurd", and denying that the country had ever been involved in digital theft.
(14) Seven trained persons interviewed three individuals who reported fictitious interrelated life histories varying in length and complexity.
(15) 9% of this cohort refused the repeated (fictitious) surgery.
(16) One biographer has noted how "the reports of his sexual liaisons – both factual and fictitious – leaked from the private realm to fuel the hectic debate over his qualities as a public man".
(17) He also said that he had immediately dismissed a request by the reporters to establish an all-party parliamentary group to help their fictitious client.
(18) Claims by the captured Iraqi fighters that they were tortured and some survivors killed were proved to be fictitious by the al-Sweady inquiry.
(19) Even Ethan Lipton's show is in on the joke: his fictitious job is that of an "information-refiner".
(20) The two experimental groups showed no significant differences in the volume of distribution and the fictitious initial concentration.