(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.
Turntable
Definition:
(n.) A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
Example Sentences:
(1) For training, head restrained animals were oscillated on a turntable in front of an optokinetic pattern projected onto a cylindrical wall.
(2) The experiments involved (a) voluntary oscillation of the head, (b) whole body oscillation on a turntable and (c) stimulation of neck afferents by oscillation of the body with the head fixed.
(3) Waste eluates are collected and drained to the sink by a Teflon tray positioned between the columns and counting tubes, also held by the turntable.
(4) djay offers a virtual pair of turntables, and it's easy to create and record your own mixes.
(5) Horizontal DC-electrooculograms were recorded in subjects rotating on a horizontal turntable sinusoidally at 0.1 Hz and 35 to 40 degrees amplitude.
(6) In the first, alcohol was shown to degrade both visual pursuit and suppression of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) in a similar manner when the vestibular response was induced by passive oscillation on a turntable at frequencies of 0.11-1.2 Hz.
(7) And by the end I was headlining the main room, peak time.” He beams, triumphant: “I’d gone from not knowing what I was doing to being able to go, here I am, I’m going to smash it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Knights of the turntable: Four Tet DJs with Skrillex at Camden Underworld.
(8) In order to increase or decrease the VORD gain, the optokinetic drum was oscillated either 180 degrees out-of-phase or in-phase with the vestibular stimulus turntable.
(9) The net HVOR was obtained by rotation of the turntable in darkness and the net OKR by rotation of the light source.
(10) The horizontal semicircular canals were stimulated by oscillation of the turntable and EMG activity was recorded from neck extensor muscles.
(11) The system is also independent of the rotational stability of the linear accelerator gantry axis and turntable axis.
(12) A homogeneous irradiation is obtained by the patient's rotation on a turntable within the radiation field.
(13) By coincidence, I had just bought one of their supposedly remastered vinyl albums and been so repelled by the sound – thin, full of pops and crackles and excessive sibilance – that I had taken apart my turntable, in search of a fault that was actually in the grooves.
(14) The monkeys were seated on a vestibular turntable, and their heads were restrained.
(15) Proper matching of the fields and minimizing the irradiated lung volume can be obtained by suitable beam blocking and appropriate angulation of the gantry, collimator and turntable.
(16) The only things I really, really love are my Technics SL-1200 turntables.
(17) In the turntable experiments, the flow away from the catheter tip (away flow) was significantly lower than that toward the catheter (toward flow), but the measured velocities for both away and toward flows were always lower than the known velocities.
(18) Phase advance, relative to turntable velocity, was small between 0.05 and 0.5 Hz.
(19) In control states, simple spike discharges of H-zone cells were modulated predominantly out of phase with the velocity of sinusoidal turntable oscillation (0.1Hz, 5 degrees peak-to-peak).
(20) To determine if animals are capable of utilizing vestibular sensory input for spatial orientation, a six-arm radial maze with a rotating central turntable was constructed.