(n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
(n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
(n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
(n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
(n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
(n.) A spectacle or show.
(n.) Opinion; decision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(3) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(4) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(5) Good fixation was obtained in 4 cases using Steffee's devices.
(6) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(7) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(8) A device allowing pressure to be applied to a local skin site where the skin blood flow is followed using laser Doppler flowmetry is described.
(9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(10) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(11) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
(12) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.
(13) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(14) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
(15) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
(16) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(17) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(18) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
(19) A training device is used in conjunction with an exercise program to teach muscle control for retention of a mandibular denture.
(20) We also used an optical device to stabilize images of the real world upon the retina.
Manifold
Definition:
(a.) Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.
(a.) Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify nouns in the singular number.
(n.) A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.
(n.) A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.
(n.) The third stomach of a ruminant animal.
(v. t.) To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
(2) It is stressed that the exact anatomical diagnosis requires the examination of every segment which can be performed only by using manifold planes.
(3) An anaerobic sampling manifold withdrew 19 samples of blood during the rest-to-exercise transition; sampling interval was usually 4 s. Blood gas analysis showed that, on average, from rest-to-steady-state exercise, O2 saturation (Svo2) fell from 71 to 41% and mixed venous PCO2 (PvCO2) rose from 42 to 59 Torr.
(4) These induction periods are regarded as the time needed by far-from-equilibrium fluctuations to drive the system into the center manifold.
(5) The apparent Km of the modified enzyme for soluble starch increased manifold, thus implicating the sensitive tryptophan residue in the substrate binding region of the enzyme.
(6) All image vectors were orthonormalized to span a linear manifold.
(7) A manifold for rapid determination of fluoride has been designed that uses a single coil for complex formation and extraction.
(8) Impinger samples were collected from the sampling manifold and analyzed accordingly.
(9) This manifold can be used to validate or calibrate various industrial hygiene analyses such as charcoal and detector tube technology, impinger techniques, respirator cartridge testing, and various survey instruments.
(10) The presentation of SAS may be manifold, and the primary health care teams play a crucial role in the detection of their basic symptoms.
(11) The modification can be made in less than 4 h without the need for any additional parts; the modified manifold requires one-third fewer pump lines and fewer reagents, thus reducing operating costs and simplifying instrument maintenance, while retaining the same precision, speed, low carryover, and linearity of the production model.
(12) The low-field temperature dependence of the MCD of oxidized FdI, which originates in the paramagnetic oxidized [3Fe-4S]1+ cluster, establishes the absence of a significant population of excited electronic states of this cluster up to 60 K. The low-field temperature dependence of the MCD of reduced FdI establishes that the ground-state manifold of the reduced [3Fe-4S]0 cluster possesses S greater than or equal to 2 at both pH 6.0 and 8.3.
(13) The appearance of this disease as generalized vasculitis is conditioned by the manifold clinical symptomatology and thus renders the diagnostics extraordinarily difficult.
(14) After certain modifications had been made in the manifold, satisfactory degrees of accuracy were also obtained for the erythrocyte counts.
(15) Among the manifold immunologic events which take place during parasitic invasions, production of autoantibodies and immune complexes can play a serious role during infections with African and American trypanosomes.
(16) There are manifold specific causes of death characterized by conditions manifest in middle and late life.
(17) It is now customary practice to couple separately metered infusions via a manifold to a common catheter that enters the patient.
(18) The differential diagnoses was manifold because of the traveling habits, the clinical symptomatic and the course of the disease.
(19) Their information must be transduced through binding to membrane receptors, so as to elicit the appropriate biological response from the manifold repertoire of a cell.
(20) The enzyme can be seen as strategically located to play a role in regenerating ATP required for the manifold activities of the synaptic membrane.