(n.) The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
(n.) That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
(n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
(n.) Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
(n.) Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.
(n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.
(n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.
(n.) The separation of a genus into its constituent species.
(n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.
(n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.
(n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.
(n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
(n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
(n.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
(n.) A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(2) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(3) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(4) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(5) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
(6) Whereas the growth and division of normal cells is carefully regulated to meet the needs of the body, tumor cells proliferate autonomously and continually, eventually interfering with and destroying the functions of normal tissue.
(7) Tuberclebacilli did not stimulate macrophage division.
(8) But on June 29, 2011, Lois G Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, learned at a meeting that groups were being targeted, according to the watchdog's report.
(9) Cause-specific mortality comparisons were also made among the employment subgroups and by duration of employment in the company division using an internal analysis method.
(10) Postoperative examination revealed division of accessory pathway and no regurgitation of mitral prosthesis.
(11) The Disability Division of ActionAid-India supports 38 non-governmental organisations involved in disability programmes in India.
(12) This column is located ventral and lateral to the dorsolateral division of the trigeminal motor nucleus, and just medial to the descending trigeminal nerve rootlets.
(13) The retail and wholesale divisions powered the improved profits.
(14) From these results we concluded that the mutants have some defect in cell division after low doses of UV irradiation, similar to the lon(-) or fil(+) mutant of E. coli.
(15) The cellular groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus groups of the medial zone together with the tuberomammillary nucleus (TUMM) are positioned at the interface between the lateral and the medial hypothalamus, and form an array of cellular groups indicated in our study as the intermediate division of the hypothalamus.
(16) In the meantime, the proliferation of salmonellae appeared to occur extracellularly in the peritoneal cavity as evidenced by their division.
(17) Hybrids obtained following fusion of normal human diploid fibroblasts with different immortal human cell lines exhibited limited division potential.
(18) An expanded version of this paper, containing full experimental details of the semisynthesis and characterization of [GlyA1-3H]insulin, has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50129 (30 pages) at the British Library (Lending Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(19) Anti-IgM antibodies also induced DNA synthesis of PBL-B, but their ability to induce cell division was less than that of anti-IgD antibodies even when used in combination with IL-4.
(20) The Tea Party movement has turned climate denial into a litmus test of conservative credentials – and that has made climate change one of the most sharp divisions between Obama and Romney.
Substraction
Definition:
(n.) Subtraction; deduction.
(n.) See Subtraction, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urinary inactive kallikrein excretion was determined indirectly by substracting active kallikrein activity from total kallikrein activity.
(2) A dual isotope technique was evolved with a ratio substract system.
(3) The Type 2 and 3 cytosomes were the ultrastructural substract of Wright-Giemsa stained blue granules.
(4) The results indicate that bovine brain has a specific PACAP receptor, whose apparent molecular weight is 57 k (substracting the molecular weight of [125I]PACAP27 from 60 k).
(5) The mean threshold light sensitivity on Humphrey automated perimetry (Program 30-1) of one eye was substracted from the fellow eye total to yield the interocular visual field difference (VFD).
(6) We studied the role of fibronectin as a mediator between the substract and the endothelial cell.
(7) TTPs were substracted by differential recording and stimulation through matched micropipettes (one in the brain and one in contiguous electrolyte) and in addition were reduced by pressure ejection of electrolyte.
(8) The effects of selective attention on ERPs to standard tones were isolated as negative difference waves (Nds) by substracting ERPs to non-attended stimuli from ERPs to the same signals when attended.
(9) Standardization of the results was obtained by pair-wise substraction, log RFPi-log RFSTi.
(10) Of these, 95 (89%) exhibited a minimal degree of geometric distortion and could be successfully substracted.
(11) "Ischemia" of a slice was achieved by substracting both glucose and oxygen from the perfusing medium.
(12) Diagnostics (perfusion scintigraphy with Tc-DTPA, digital substraction angiography) demonstrated hypoperfusion of the graft, caused by a steal syndrome due to the A-V fistula in the groin.
(13) Binding of synthetic substracts, such as p-nitrophenyl-2-acetamido-4-O-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D -glucopyranosyl)-beta-D-glucopyranoside (NAG-Gluc-varphiNO(2)), has also been studied by the magnetic resonance technique described.
(14) The substract acetate and ATP could be replaced by propionate and dATP, repectively.
(15) In all, photographic substraction, a simple technique, appears to be of value in gastrointestinal angiography essentially in the arteriographic study of the pancreas and of spleno-portal and mesenterico-portal venous return.
(16) Hemofiltration is a method suitable for rapid substraction of plasma water that generally allows reduction of circulating levels of norepinephrine.
(17) Remember that the oclusal adjustment is an irreversible media of dental structures substraction that can be made as a unique type of treatment before the operative dentistry and prostodontics.
(18) Imaging procedures were mainly real-time ultrasonography and thallium-technetium substraction scintigraphy with sensitivities of 50.8% and 46.7% and specificities of 86.3 and 76.3% respectively.
(19) Cutting scores differentiating normal from pathological performance were determined substracting 2 standard deviations from the means of normals subjects subdivided into four educational groups.
(20) On the basis of a comparative study of 100 angiograms, the authors stress the value of photographic substraction in gastrointestinal angiography.