(n.) An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical.
(n.) The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.
(n.) A miner's compass.
(v. t.) To measure with a dial.
(v. t.) To survey with a dial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
(2) Treatment of Xenopus laevis membranes with the 2',3'-dialdehyde of GTP (dial GTP) drastically inhibits their adenylyl cyclase activity.
(3) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
(4) For the embattled people of Ali Akbar Dial, a collection of disappearing villages on the southern tip of the island in Bangladesh , the distant trees serve as a bittersweet reminder of what they have lost and a warning of what is come.
(5) This enabled the technologist to dial in each patient's identification number, which then appeared on every frame of the 35-mm film used.
(6) Controls were identified by random-digit dialing and from lists of Medicare recipients.
(7) Dial-A-Flo has no advantage over a standard administration set alone, and should not be used for controlled administration of cardiac drugs.
(8) The effects of barrier and spermicidal methods of contraception on cervical cancer risk were examined by studying 479 cases of histologically confirmed invasive cervical cancer cases and 788 random digit dialing controls.
(9) During trials to increase temperature, subjects were shown a dial indicating temperature of an index finger and were instructed to try to warm their hands.
(10) The 4536 controls were women of similar ages selected by random dialing of households with telephones in the same eight areas.
(11) A factorial design was used to determine the influence of carrier-gas helium concentration, carrier-gas flow rate and vaporizer dial setting on the output of four vaporizers: Ohio Calibrated Enflurane, Ohio Calibrated Isoflurane, Ohmeda Isotec 4, and Dräger Vapor 19.1 Isoflurane.
(12) The use of digital reader boards, displayed in watts rather than an arbitrary dial setting is one example.
(13) The controls were 4676 women selected by random-digit dialing of the population of each area covered by a registry.
(14) Output was converted to % of baseline so that different dial settings could be compared.
(15) Interviews with 478 controls of the same age, identified through telephone random-digit dialing, were conducted twice during the same time period.
(16) Controls were selected by random digit dialing to approximate the case distribution by age, sex, and telephone exchange area.
(17) Control subjects were identified by random-digit dialing from these same regions and were frequency-matched to men with lymphoma by age.
(18) In rabbits anaesthetized with Dial ACh has been collected from the surface of the cerebral cortex during stimulation of the visual pathways.2.
(19) Behind the scenes, shareholders did encourage Reckitt to dial down Becht's rewards in 2007.
(20) A spring-loaded dial indicator produces results that are accurate, precise and reproducible.
Dual
Definition:
(a.) Expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two; as, the dual number of nouns, etc. , in Greek.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ratio of the cell yields under dual substrate conditions compared to heterotrophic conditions indicated the relative contributions of the autotrophic and heterotrophic systems to the growth of the organism.
(2) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
(3) Changes of circulating blood volume during isoflurane or sevoflurane anesthesia were investigated by the dual indicator dilution method in eighteen mongrel dogs.
(4) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.
(5) The objective was to determine whether the parent axonal impulse train elicited by dual-hair stimulation was due to a temporal combining ("mixing"; Fukami, 1980) of the impulse trains elicited in the parent axons by the same stimulation to each hair alone.
(6) Mn2+ had dual effects, stimulating the ECP release in the absence of Mg2+ and Ca2+, and inhibiting the release in the presence of these cations.
(7) Thus, monocytes may play a dual role, not only as effector cells, but also as cells that collaborate with T cells after OKT3 MoAb stimulation so as to produce PCA.
(8) Dual antigen experiments indicated that the increased localization was not specific for the antigen which stimulated production of lymphoblasts used for in vitro labelling and reinfusion.
(9) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
(10) Cytochemical analysis of the monocytes showed positive for peroxidase and dual esterase staining.
(11) Actin also exhibited a clear dual wave pattern of transport that coincided well with that of tubulin, indicating that both actin and tubulin were the major components of both groups IV and V.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
(12) Quantitative measurements for 5-HT in lobster larvae were performed using high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) with dual electrochemical detection and for proctolin using radioimmunoassay.
(13) The damage threshold during aortic valvuloplasty was determined in 12 normal swine subjected to inflation of oversized dual balloons.
(14) The relative hypermagnesaemia had a similar dual origin.
(15) It announced that it would phase out the dual currency system.
(16) This study validates the relevance of dual-wavelength fluorometry using a pH-dependent indicator to characterize in vivo normal and tumour tissues after glucose administration.
(17) Fourteen patients (60.9%) responded to dual-agent tocolysis by delaying delivery for 48 hours or more.
(18) Glutamate-induced changes in intracellular free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) were recorded in single rat hippocampal neurons grown in primary culture by employing the Ca2+ indicator indo-1 and a dual-emission microfluorimeter.
(19) Dual-positive CD4+CD8+ T cells (which were barely detectable in normal adults), CD4-CD8+ T cells and B cells transiently reached supranormal levels during recovery.
(20) The dual-line and polynomial regression techniques fit the data better (mean residual square deviation 0.024 and 0.031, respectively) than the single-regression line approach (0.110).