(v. t.) To make coordinate; to put in the same order or rank; as, to coordinate ideas in classification.
(v. t.) To give a common action, movement, or condition to; to regulate and combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coordinate muscular movements.
(n.) A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.
(n.) Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coordinate axes and coordinate planes. See Abscissa.
Example Sentences:
(1) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
(2) The Test of Motor Impairment (TOMI) was used to select 12 children with a Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and 12 age-matched controls.
(3) By using these methods, it was clearly indicated that these factors such as TDF of rectum, Z-coordinate of weighted geometric center (WGC-Z), the dose of whole pelvic irradiation, history of chemotherapy and Treponema pallidum hemoagglutination test (TPHA) were important for occurrence of rectal complication.
(4) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
(5) Guidelines are presented for pharmacist coordination of the importation for use by institutionalized patients of drugs not currently approved by the FDA.
(6) Furthermore, non-coordinate expression of DR and DQW1 was present in 8 out of 40 carcinomas, with the proportion of DQW1 positive epithelium always being less than that of DR. Carcinomas exhibiting non-coordinate expression were never well differentiated; there was no relationship with the extent of the inflammatory infiltrate.
(7) During well-coordinated neurological and psychiatric treatment the laughing seizures (spontaneous, event-related, psychogenic) decreased and a considerable improvement in psychiatric and psychosocial problems was attained.
(8) This process may be achieved by co-ordinated synthesis and translation of new mRNA or gradual accumulation of constitutively synthesized mRNA, followed by coordinated translational activation.
(9) Since PDE alpha was not reduced, this suggests that synthesis of PDE alpha and PDE beta may not be coordinately controlled.
(10) According to the resolution of the national coordinative conference, 1098 cases with extrahepatic biliary cancer, from 1977, January to 1989, April were collected by over 40 hospitals and coordinative groups throughout the country.
(11) Transfer of nonprofessional tasks out of nursing and reduction of tension arising from reduced responsibility of nurses for coordinating activities with ancillary departments are possible explanations for the positive relation between the presence of SUM and professional nurses' satisfaction.
(12) A nearly identical mapping pattern is obtained with the coordinately regulated GAL7 promoter.
(13) A sound source is commonly spherical, therefore solutions are found for the wave equation in spherical coordinates, giving a precise meaning to the 'azimuthal' and 'magnetic quantum number' analogy.
(14) Office procedures include selecting an office coordinator, ensuring a smoke-free office, establishing a mechanism to identify and monitor patients who smoke, and involving the office staff in intervention and follow-up.
(15) Stereo cineradiography in the late postoperative period (mean, 52 days after surgery) allowed computer-aided measurements of the three-dimensional coordinates of multiple sites in anterior, inferior, lateral, and septal LV regions at 16.7-msec intervals throughout the cardiac cycle.
(16) Based on the refined atomic coordinates of the tRNAphe in the orthorhombic crystal, on the recent advances in the distance dependence of the ring-current magnetic field effects and on the adopted values for the isolated hydrogen-bonded NH resonances, a computed spectrum consisting of 23 protons was constructed.
(17) This mechanism, which is activated by changes in culture density, coordinately regulates the activities of HMG-CoA reductase and acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase (ACAT).
(18) A number of the complexes showed potent cytotoxic activity in vitro and antitumor activity in vivo, with the phosphine-coordinated gold(I) thiosugar complexes demonstrating the greatest in vitro and in vivo activity.
(19) Many of the limitations of conventional diagnostic arthroscopy of the knee have been largely overcome through the development of techniques that permit manipulation of intra-articular structures through paired, coordinated entry sites.
(20) Utilizing the known atomic coordinates of the chromophores (Schirmer, T., Bode, W. and Huber, R. (1987) J. Mol.
Cosine
Definition:
(n.) The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Example Sentences:
(1) algebraic sum of these three cosine functions yielded a circadian waveform with peak-times occurring near 0300 and 1130 hr and a trough-time about 2200 hr.
(2) The EMG data were fit with a nonlinear, multiple cosine function, which allowed the identification of one, two, or sometimes three separate cosine peaks.
(3) The compression technique is a variation of the Consultive Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy Joint Photograph Experts Group compression that suppresses the blocking of the discrete cosine transform except in areas of very high contrast.
(4) Data were fit using a two-step sine and cosine regression for each 24-h period.
(5) Diurnal periodicity in bradyarrhythmia (sinoatrial block, atrioventricular block) and heart rate was analyzed by the least square fit of 24-h cosines.
(6) In comparison with APO-UNSUS rats APO-SUS rats showed significantly more spike-wave discharges, especially during the dark period: both the mesor and the amplitude of the optimal cosine fitted to the data were significantly increased, whereas neither the acrophase nor the period length (24 h) differed.
(7) To implement a picture archiving and communication system, clinical evaluation of irreversible image compression with a newly developed modified two-dimensional discrete cosine transform (DCT) and bit-allocation technique was performed for chest images with computed radiography (CR).
(8) Histopathological changes as shown in sections stained with hematoxylin and cosin include patchy areas of colloid degeneration and thickening of the walls of some blood vessels in 10 out of 15 marasmic cases.
(9) The modulation depth showed a close to cosine relation with the angle between the preferred axis and the stimulus rotation axis.
(10) Curvature-increment thresholds were measured for contour curvatures from 0.31 to 10.65 deg-1, for grating spatial frequencies of 4.0 and 16.0 cycles per degree (cpd), and for gratings in either sine or cosine phase at the point of maximum curvature.
(11) The EFP nocturnal decline in LH did not conform to a cosine rhythm.
(12) According to acrophases of a fitted cosine curve and visual inspection on chronograms, the phases of circadian rhythms were delayed to different degrees in the evening shifts with a minimum of about 1 h for oral temperature and a maximum of about 4 h for urinary free noradrenaline.
(13) The acrophases (maxima of the adjusted cosine curve) occurred at 23:39, 07:59, 08:37 and 13:25 h, respectively.
(14) The fit of a 24-hr cosine function was able to reject the null hypothesis of amplitude = O in the majority of patients under intensive care.
(15) A compression technique based on the discrete cosine transform takes the viewing factors into account by compressing the changes in the local brightness levels.
(16) When two drifting cosine gratings are superimposed, they will, under appropriate conditions, form a coherently moving two-dimensional pattern whose resultant direction of motion may either be between (type I), or outside (type II) the directions of the two components.
(17) In the second experiment, DLs were obtained for linear, exponential, and raised-cosine onset envelopes at rise-time values between 10 and 40 msec.
(18) The new nonlinearity hypothesis cannot account for the results obtained with sine-phase test stimuli, though it gives a better account of the results with cosine-phase stimuli than does the early nonlinearity hypothesis which was tested and rejected by Nachmias and Rogowitz (1983).
(19) The gonadotropin secretory pattern was subjected to cosine analysis for identifying rhythmicity.
(20) Two-cosine functions often provided the best fit to the EMG data.