(v. t.) To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
(v. t.) To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
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".
Replicate
Definition:
(v. t.) To reply.
(a.) Alt. of Replicated
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, DNA polymerase alpha, the enzyme involved in chromosomal DNA replication, was relatively insensitive to CA1.
(2) Assessment of the likelihood of replication in humans has included in vitro exposure of human cells to the potential pesticidal agent.
(3) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(4) In each study, all subjects underwent four replications (over two days) of one of the six permutations of the three experimental conditions; each condition lasted 5 min.
(5) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
(6) PMN were found to be nonpermissive for HSV replication and were unable to bind virus in the absence of antibody.
(7) However, further improvement of culture systems is needed for active replication of HBV in vitro.
(8) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(9) It is concluded that fibroblast replication is an important mechanism leading to the pathologic fibrosis seen in graft versus host disease and, by analogy, probably other types of immunologically mediated fibrosis.
(10) We found that, although controlled release delivery of ddC inhibited de novo FeLV-FAIDS replication and delayed onset of viremia when therapy was discontinued (after 3 weeks), an equivalent incidence and level of viremia were established rapidly in both ddC-treated and control cats.
(11) None of the compounds proved active against the replication of retroviruses (human immunodeficiency virus, murine sarcoma virus) at concentrations that were not toxic to the host cells.
(12) The M 13 specific DNA present in minicells isolated several hours after infection consists of single stranded viral DNA and double stranded replicative forms in nearly equal amounts.
(13) A standard protocol is reported for the highly efficient demonstration of replication patterns corresponding to R-type and G-type banding.
(14) Infidelity of replication is a hallmark of the HIV-1 RT, and replication errors by the enzyme on RNA and DNA templates are discussed.
(15) To determine if late viral genes contribute to target cell lysis, phosphonoacetic acid (PAA), an inhibitor of DNA polymerase activity, was used to block DNA replication that is required for expression of late viral proteins.
(16) Virus replication in nasal turbinates was not diminished while infection in the lung was suppressed sufficiently for the infected mice to survive the infection.
(17) The specificity of vaccinia restriction was demonstrated by the ability of myxoma virus to replicate in nonimmune and vaccinia-immune macrophages.
(18) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
(19) The model is based on the concept that a cell with hypothetically unlimited replicative potential--i.e.
(20) However, the degree of inhibition of parasite replication after exposure to rMu-GM-CSF was not as great as after treatment with rMu-IFN-gamma, and much more rMu-GM-CSF than rMu-IFN-gamma was required to achieve an equivalent antimicrobial effect.