(n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
(n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
(n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contact angles of Silafocon A and PMMA were relatively uninfluenced by front surface radii between 7.7 and 8.85 and 7.3 to 8.8 mm, respectively.
(2) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(3) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(4) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(5) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(6) However, none of the nerve terminals making synaptic contacts with glomus cells exhibited SP-like immunoreactivity.
(7) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
(8) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
(9) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
(10) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(11) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(12) The results indicated that the role of contact inhibition phenomena in arresting cellular proliferation was diminished in perfusion system environments.
(13) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
(14) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(15) No statistically significant differences were noted between the IgE-levels, the age of our patients, the type and number of contact allergens, and the duration of skin lesions.
(16) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(17) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
(18) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(19) (1) Gastrin release is suppressed primarily by direct contact of acid with the antrum.
(20) We retrospectively studied the incidence and course of epoxy resin contact dermatitis in 2265 patients in whom contact dermatitis was confirmed by patch testing.
Wiper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, wipes.
(n.) Something used for wiping, as a towel or rag.
(n.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam.
(n.) A rod, or an attachment for a rod, for holding a rag with which to wipe out the bore of the barrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Attach self-adhesive foam strips, or metal strips with brushes or wipers attached, to window, door and loft-hatch frames (if you have sash windows, it's better to ask a professional to do it).
(2) Others face more niggling problems: in a recent post on the local Facebook group “Eliminate All Stray Dogs”, one resident claimed an unruly pack kept jumping on his car, destroying its windscreen wipers.
(3) Bag placement of appropriately styled lens models is strongly recommended, since sulcus-placed lenses have sometimes shown either iris bulging or decentration and windshield-wiper or propeller phenomena.
(4) These include pupillary capture, optic decentration, malpositioned loop, windshield wiper, sunrise, sunset and lost lens syndromes.
(5) Sunlight or light from other sources can be scattered and refracted by the smears left on windshields by wipers.
(6) Both Kaspersky Lab and Symantec have also linked Destover to Shamoon , a so-called “wiper” that knocked out 30,000 machines at oil giant Saudi Aramco in 2012, as the same software drivers were in use.
(7) Not just Broadchurch but The Fall and Top of the Lake, both on BBC2 (and both BPG nominees), Utopia and Southcliffe on Channel 4 and intriguing one-offs such as BBC2's The Wipers Times, co-written by Ian Hislop, another BPG winner.
(8) The "windshield-wiper" sign was defined as any radiolucency of 2 mm or greater.
(9) The common types of malpositions are: pupil capture; sunset syndrome; sunrise syndrome; horizontal decentration; and the windshield wiper syndrome.
(10) The single-size design of five of the six soft lenses can lead to a windshield-wiper decentration effect in lenses too small for larger eyes.
(11) The bomber used a model of car so ubiquitous in Kabul that street vendors sell windscreen wipers and other spare parts at junctions.
(12) I'm sitting in the cockpit of the new Batmobile staring at the switch for the windscreen wipers.
(13) The Olympic slap-slap-slapping of rubber slippers as hawkers chase seemingly interested drivers, the grifting confidence of the ones who sell fake windscreen wipers, dog leashes, jump cables that only work for one week after purchase, and that pink rubber hose thingy for transferring fuel from a jerry can to your car, during fuel scarcity – Chinese solutions to Nigerian problems.
(14) Whereas serious dislocations such as the sunset and windshield-wiper syndromes are less frequent since the introduction of highly flexible loops, posterior vaulting of the pseudophakos may cause problems, eventually provoking a posterior capsule rupture and a secondary sunset syndrome.
(15) Football can indeed claim for itself a part in the invention of the windscreen wiper, but it was a Newcastle fan rather than a player who came up with the idea.
(16) Ancient bottom wipers yield evidence of diseases carried along the Silk Road
(17) The report also cites increasingly sophisticated techniques, which include dissolving the drug in solvents to smuggle it across the border disguised as flavoured drinks or hidden in windshield wiper reservoirs.
(18) He has also presented a long line of well-regarded documentaries for BBC2 (including, most recently, Stiff Upper Lip – an Emotional History of Britain) and has co-written, with long-time collaborator Nick Newman, The Wipers Times, a BBC2 first world war drama starring Michael Palin.
(19) Is the screenwash topped up, are tyres in good condition, and are the wipers working effectively?
(20) Some bamboo sticks with scraps of grimy cloth wound around them have been identified as bottom wipers from a latrine pit in a 2,000-year-old Chinese relay station on the Silk Road.