(n.) Act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.
(n.) That which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.
(n.) That which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 2,800-molecular-weight oligosaccharide was a constituent of the hemagglutinin, and treatment of this large oligosaccharide with specific exo-glycosidases demonstrated the presence of terminal galactose and fucose and allowed the deduction of a general structure for this component.
(2) In addition to the image of the soft tissue and alveolar bone provided, this procedure makes the deduction of the ideal fixture site possible.
(3) This deduction was supported by an exploratory dose-seeking study that spanned five years in 20 patients with recurrent (non-gall stone) acute or chronic pancreatitis and confirmed by a 20-week double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial of the successful combination (daily doses of 600 micrograms organic selenium, 0.54 g vitamin C, 9000 IU B-carotene, 270 IU vitamin E and 2 g methionine) in a further 20 cases.
(4) Donald Trump has continued his criticism of Hillary Clinton’s support for election recounts in three states, claiming he won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”.
(5) How many of those will he give before deducting a point?
(6) Government-funded health insurance programs that claim to provide comprehensive funding of their clients' demands have commonly adopted a purposive (deductive) approach to the problem of health care funding.
(7) This deduction was based on the subepithelial growth pattern and the presence of in-situ carcinoma showing a glandular or squamous pattern at the location of the esophageal gland duct.
(8) Review negative gearing Federal Labor and the Greens have proposed a rethink of negative gearing, the practice of property investors claiming their losses as a deduction against their taxable income.
(9) PSG's title will not, however, be confirmed until a league disciplinary panel meets to decide whether to impose a points deduction following allegations that their sporting director, Leonardo, barged a referee.
(10) The Swiss authorities tax these lending units as if they were required to pay large, tax-deductible interest bills – even if they have no such cost.
(11) Comparison of genomic and cDNA clones allowed the correct deduction of the intron boundaries and the 3'-end cleavage site of this gene.
(12) Both Red Star and Partizan began the next season with a six-point deduction because of the previous season's events [along with eight other clubs].
(13) These results with fura-2-loaded platelets indicate that mobilisation of internal Ca2+ can contribute a substantial proportion of the early peak [Ca2+]i evoked by thrombin directly confirming the deductions from previous work with different loadings of quin2.
(14) There is good reason to hope that the speculative nature which at this time pervades our bridging efforts will eventually be substituted by unequivocal facts and deductions.
(15) The number of uninsured was estimated deductively from the coverages of those insurance companies doing business in the state, with an additional factor for persons with more than one policy coverage.
(16) Researchers have indicated that the single-case study experimental design may be of value in chiropractic clinical practice, allowing for the formulation of deductive conclusions derived from each case.
(17) The inheritance levy, thought to be £20,000, would be deducted from the estates of older people when they die, replacing a system that forces many pensioners to sell their family homes to fund nursing home bills.
(18) Final deductions, however, must be followed by careful checking of all individual histories.
(19) Available data do not, at present, permit deduction as to whether additional selenium intake in man, exposed to mercury vapor or mercuric mercury, will have any effect, beneficial or adverse.
(20) Histological observations correlate well with tensiometry deductions.
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Definition:
(n.) One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.
(n.) That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.
(n.) That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.
(n.) That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.
(n.) An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.
(v. t.) To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
(2) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(3) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(4) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
(5) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
(6) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(7) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(8) Trichostatin C is presumably the first example of a glucopyranosyl hydroxamate from nature.
(9) Increased iron levels in basal ganglia were generally associated with normal or elevated levels of ferritin immunoreactivity, for example, the substantia nigra in PSP and possibly MSA, and in putamen in MSA.
(10) This is the first clear example of activation of the K-ras gene by ethylating agents in a rodent lung tumor system.
(11) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
(12) For example, lysine is preferably encoded by the AAA codon if guanosine is 3' to the lysine codon (AAA-G, P less than 10(-9)).
(13) For example, 75% of them were asked about their family life, marital status and children in interviews.
(14) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
(15) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
(16) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
(17) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
(18) Individual play techniques are explored, and two case histories are given as examples of how the occupational therapist works with the child, the family, and other practitioners.
(19) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
(20) One example of this increased data generation is the emergence of genomic selection, which uses statistical modeling to predict how a plant will perform before field testing.