(a.) Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.
(n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) This combined process decreased by 63% the decimal reduction times for the heat treatment when the organism was suspended in buffer and by 43% when suspended in milk.
(2) An isolated colony of red squirrels at Formby , Merseyside, were decimated by an outbreak of squirrelpox in 2008 , which saw the population crash by 85% to less than 200 squirrels.
(3) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
(4) Fish stocks have been decimated by methods that include cyanide poisoning.
(5) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(6) On average, aided Snellen VA's were better (decimal acuity = 0.98) than the unaided interferometric VA's (decimal acuity = 0.67).
(7) The observation led the authors to put forth the hypothesis of acquired provisional immunity or a temporary decimation of disease vectors.
(8) Google enlisted members of the US congress, whose election campaigns it had funded, to pressure the European Union to drop a €6bn antitrust case which threatens to decimate the US tech firm’s business in Europe.
(9) His Third Man studio complex and shop in Nashville is introducing a new generation to the joys of vinyl at a time when the music industry has been decimated by a drop in physical-format sales.
(10) Multiplication of the legionellae was found to occur in a temperature range between 20 and 43 degrees C and inactivation was observed above 50 degrees C. Decimal reduction times decreased with increasing temperatures.
(11) The phenotype cosegregates with a DNA haplotype of the apo B gene in an Idaho pedigree, with a maximum decimal logarithm of the ratio (LOD) score of 7.56 at a recombination rate of zero.
(12) Oxfam has already had to scale back life-saving work in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and sub-Saharan Africa – the poorest region in the world – due to unprecedented aid cuts.” Childfund Australia’s chief executive, Nigel Spence, said the budget had made “even deeper cuts to an already decimated aid budget”.
(13) Many GPs are already working 12-hour days, with much of our time (both clinical and administrative) spent dealing with the consequences of failed political initiatives, failure of appropriate regulation, decimation of local voluntary sector support agencies and NHS bureaucracy.
(14) To counter claims that the policy is decimating social housing stock, the government introduced its one-for-one replacement principle that each social home sold should be replaced with a similar one.
(15) With tourism decimated since the ousting of Mohamed Morsi as president in July, Egyptian authorities hope the new tomb will help bring visitors back to Luxor.
(16) Decimal serial dilutions of eight common bacterial species were prepared, and the detection times were determined by measuring the (14)CO(2) metabolized from the (14)C-labeled glucose substrate.
(17) Being from Yorkshire in the late 90s and early 2000s: we were decimated, I saw how hard it was to keep the show on the road, and it was that voluntary party that kept that show on the road."
(18) Read more Still, though polls will not perfectly predict the US election, state by state and down to the decimal point, they are likely to accurately guess who will win nationally, especially if Clinton has a large enough lead.
(19) Disinfectant activities were compared by statistical analysis of log reduction factors and log count time gradients (decimal reduction times).
(20) As we speak, further education is being silently decimated in the name of "vocational training".
Octal
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A five-digit octal code number is derived from each set of reactions from which an identification is derived by using a code book.
(2) A 7-digit numerical profile is obtained by an octal coding of the test results.
(3) Results of phage-typing of 22 strains from 16 listeriosis cases, which were isolated during an epidemic outbreak in the district of Magdeburg, showed that most strains were determined by the octal codes 73611, 73615, 73655, 73645.
(4) Isolates are identified by using an octal code and the test kit manual.
(5) Based on the pattern of positive and negative biochemical reactions, a five-digit octal code number is calculated.
(6) A computer-generated identification manual accompanies the product, and for each octal code listed there is a numerical value that represents the unknown isolate's degree of fit to a typical organism (LFR), a second numerical value that represents its separation from other organisms (PNOR), and a verbal description of the quality of identification.
(7) Based on the pattern of positive and negative biochemical test results, a five-digit octal code number is calculated.
(8) Half the MICRO-ID misidentifications occurred when the system identified a Citrobacter diversus as a lysine-negative Escherichia coli; all gave one octal number.
(9) After sorting the octal biocodes from the 169 isolates into groupings using a cluster analysis technique, it was shown by a Chi-square goodness of fit test that isolates of a given species were sorted into the same cluster group at a frequency of at least 99%.
(10) These 58 bp contain sequences showing similarities with the targets of trans-acting factors such as Octal-c and NFkB.
(11) Beyond 6 phages, the binary pattern reporting, unintelligible without correction, is possible with an octal number not exceeding 7 digits for a pattern corresponding to a 21-phage set.
(12) But should the system use more than 5 phages, the advantage offered by the octal code becomes obvious because, without computer, the manual coding for comparing the results of various series is always possible.
(13) Analysis of the 100 isolates identified in duplicate revealed 93% reproducibility of genus and species identification and 62% reproducibility of octal code numbers.
(14) Reactions are converted into a 7-digit octal biocode, relayed via a sensor to the memory module, and compared to biocodes preprogrammed in the memory.