(n.) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.
(n.) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although these two destructive entities are completely different in many respects, they share a common denominator: the initial lesions are brought about by an aggregate of bacteria known as plaque.
(2) Changes in transcutaneous PO2 correlated to changes in MEF25 (P less than 0.05), indicating a common denominator, probably the conditions in the peripheral airways.
(3) Authors have previously published April 1988 a lecture where they criticize the bad denomination "passed coma" full of ambiguity for public mind, to which "brain death" ought to be preferred.
(4) It is suggested that SHBG may act as one common denominator in the pathogenesis of postmenopausal osteoporosis and endometrial disease by regulating the levels of unbound, biologically active androgens and estrogens.
(5) The physiopathological and agnoslogical basis for this denomination could be the following: 1st The "S. aureus" is the ehtiological agent of the SSE in man.
(6) According to a new and still unorthodox principle, a syndrome may have a common psychodynamic denominator, shared by all or most carriers of the syndrome.
(7) Denominators (base population) were obtained from monitoring a random sample of returning British travellers with the international passenger survey.
(8) The view is taken, that the seemingly inconsistent findings could be related to a common denominator, with no immediate need of abandoning Schachter's basic ideas.
(9) In most cases, denominator data were not available, so proportional mortality analysis was used.
(10) Such a mechanism suggests that other muscle contractile systems operating with the same Ca++ denominator should also be affected by the drug.
(11) To add to their woes, the cost of their dollar-denominated debt is rising; the US Federal Reserve said December’s rate hike is just the start of a “gradual” tightening cycle .
(12) Since the description of "senile haemorrhagic caries of the shoulder", several authors have reported, under various names, very similar diseases whose common denominator is destruction of the shoulder joint.
(13) An example indicates that a 1 per cent increase in the denominator of one treatment group results in a 32 per cent drop in the exact P value, but a mere 0.1 per cent decrease in the treatment success rate.
(14) Female respondents had greater similarity in their emphasis upon relationality than did lesbian and gay respondents within the same denominational tradition.
(15) This alpha 2-macroglobulin fraction isolated from allopregnant rats was denominated IRG to its graft rejection inhibitory activity.
(16) Nitric oxide (NO) appears to be the common denominator of this group of drugs that leads to guanylate cyclase activation, followed by increases in levels of cyclic GMP and relaxation.
(17) "There's been a sense that we don't want to be a lowest common denominator government just trying to legislate where we agree."
(18) The severity of myocardial damage appears to be a common denominator contributing to electrophysiologic derangements, impaired ventricular function, and prognosis after myocardial infarction.
(19) "It is denominational cleansing; part of a major Iranian Shia plan, which is obvious through the involvement of Hezbollah and Iranian militias.
(20) Geopathological, dietary, gerontological, and geophysiological data, data on electrolyte concentrations in healthy cells and in the corresponding tumor cells, and data on the potassium status of patients with different diseases and the associations of these diseases with cancer revealed a common denominator in the potassium-sodium-cancer relationship.
Ecclesia
Definition:
(n.) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.