(n.) One who, or that which, gives a name; origin or source of a name.
(n.) That number placed below the line in vulgar fractions which shows into how many parts the integer or unit is divided.
(n.) That part of any expression under a fractional form which is situated below the horizontal line signifying division.
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.
Solidus
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Greater cracking susceptibility was interpreted by considering that these eutectics solidified at solidification temperatures far lower than the nominal solidus.
(2) The major GSH transferase form in S. solidus (plerocercoid) showed greater biochemical relationship to the Mu family of mammalian GSH transferase compared to the mammalian Alpha or Pi families.
(3) Aspects of the infectivity of the plerocercoid stage and the fecundity of the adult stage of Schistocephalus solidus were examined using the chicken, Gallus gallus, as an experimental host.
(4) The liquidus and solidus phase boundaries were determined by the onset temperature of heating and cooling scans, respectively, because the completion temperature of a phase transition has no meaning in binary solutions.
(5) Gasterosteus aculeatus was the most heavily infected fish with 4 larval cestode species; for two of them (D. ditremum and S. solidus) the three-spined stickleback was found to be the required fish intermediate host.
(6) Protein-lipid interactions are monitored by high sensitive differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measuring (i) the shifts of transition states delta Ts* and delta Tl*, where Ts represents the solidus line, the onset of lipid chain melting, and Tl the liquidus line, the endpoint of chain melting, and (ii) the heats of transition.
(7) From these graphs, densities, at room temperature, solidus point and liquidus point were obtained.
(8) The author then relates how he was given a stickleback infected with the plerocercoid of Schistocephalus solidus, an episode which eventually led to the successful in vitro culture of the adult of this species.
(9) This solidus article reports on two unique cases of naviculo-medial cuneiform coalition in a 20-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman.
(10) Two autogenic (Triaenophorus crassus and T. nodulosus) and four allogenic (Diphyllobothrium latum, D. dendriticum, D. ditremum and Schistocephalus solidus) larval cestode species were found in 13 out of 31 fish species studied from the Bothnian Bay, NE Baltic.
(11) Glutathione (GSH) transferase isoenzymes have been partially resolved from the cytosol of Schistocephalus solidus (plerocercoid) by GSH affinity chromatography and chromatofocusing at pH 7-5.
(12) The in vitro culture of S. solidus led to the development of successful in vitro techniques for Ligula intestinalis and for Echinococcus granulosus and E. multilocularis.
(13) The structures of two low-gold and two silver-palladium alloys were evaluated in the as-cast and hardened conditions and in the condition achieved after annealing for 1 h at 100 degrees C below the solidus temperature.
(14) Using this data, the solidifying shrinkage and the shrinkage in the solidus phase were calculated.
(15) Among allogenic cestode species, those restricted to different definitive host species segregated their larval population in relation to the fish host, while, for example, D. ditremum and S. solidus, both maturing in fish-eating birds, had the highest percentage of co-occurrences.
(16) At the temperature where phase separation occurs, motion is detected as the solidus domains floating on a liquidus medium.
(17) Trial castings of alloys with a thermal expansion room to solidus temperature ranging from 1.60 to 1.91% showed either a very high accuracy or the possibility of improving the accuracy actually found by modifying the glycerol content of the mixing liquid used.
(18) Surprisingly, binary mixtures of DPPC and these cationic amphiphiles also show strongly nonideal mixing, with phase diagrams exhibiting pronounced maxima in their solidus and liquidus curves.
(19) The pure dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine has two well-defined solidus phases P beta' and L beta' and a liquidus phase L alpha while the pure phosphatidylserine has a broad transition from L beta to L alpha.
(20) There were no significant differences of thermal shrinkage in solidus between the five alloys, and each showed approximately 5vol% shrinkage.