(a.) A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.
(a.) A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century.
(a.) A counterfeit gem, composed of two pieces of crystal, with a color them, and thus giving the appearance of a naturally colored gem. Also, a piece of paste or glass covered by a veneer of real stone.
(a.) An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
(a.) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.
(a.) A game somewhat like backgammon.
(a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, analogous OMPs in the LGV strains existed as a doublet with a molecular mass of about 60,000 Da.
(2) The antigen (a protein doublet of Mr 75,000-80,000) is present in, but not restricted to, the myelin lamellae, since it is distributed along the whole myelinating Schwann cell membrane.
(3) In this respect earlier reports by other authors were confirmed but minor compounds not detected so far could be revealed as 15:1, the doublet 18:1 and i-18:0, 19:1 and 20:1.
(4) Studies with substrate analogs selectively modified at the basic doublet indicated that the integrity of both basic amino acids is essential but that conformational parameters, probably governed by the amino acid sequences flanking the basic doublet, play an important role.
(5) During FV, 10 of 26 motoneurons began their discharges with doublets (interspike interval < 10 ms); doublets occurred in only 4 of 67 motoneurons during FC.
(6) The model suggests that the diversity of beat phenotype may be explicable by changes in the timing of switching between active and inactive states of doublet arm activity.
(7) The proacrosin appeared as a doublet (Mr = 55,000 and 53,000) on both of these systems.
(8) The excess intensity (approximately 17%) of the low-spin doublet must therefore be assigned to heme a3 in a modified environment.
(9) The other, p24, migrated as a sharp band or closely spaced doublet with an apparent molecular weight of 24 kD.
(10) Twenty-four amino acid doublets were found; the most abundant of these are Pro-Pro and Ala-Ala which each occur five times.
(11) Rat vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) in culture synthesize and secrete a approximately 38,000-Mr protein doublet or triplet that, as previously described (Majack and Bornstein.
(12) The free ends of the microtubules appear unraveled; they are seen first as single elements, then as doublets, and finally are arranged into a cylinder.
(13) In one recombinant clone the large CRP appeared to be posttranslationally cleaved at two sites, forming a doublet in a manner similar to the large-CRP doublet made in native C. psittaci 6BC.
(14) Ciliary abnormalities fell into four major categories: (1) cilia with a single axoneme and excess cytoplasmic matrix; (2) compound cilia; (3) intracytoplasmic microtubular doublets; and (4) cilia within periciliary sheaths.
(15) The mobility of this doublet is identical under reducing and non-reducing conditions.
(16) The head seems to float uncomfortably above the collar, while the doublet is ineptly managed.
(17) When cytosines in CpG doublets in G + C-rich fragments were methylated (mCpG), the reactivity increased up to 100-fold.
(18) When analyzed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate and mercaptoethanol, the protein migrated as a doublet with apparent molecular masses of 55 and 60 kilodaltons (kDa) and as a 50-kDa band in nonreducing gels.
(19) The N-acetylimidazole-reacted apoprotein supplemented with hemin and reacted with hydroperoxides, neither showed electronic absorption spectra of higher oxidation states nor an EPR doublet signal due to a tyrosyl radical.
(20) Stimulus trains starting with an initial doublet produced maximum rate of tension development (optimum impulse pattern).
Origin
Definition:
(n.) The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
(n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
(n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our results suggest that the peripheral sensitivity to hypoxia declined more than that to CO2, implying a peripheral chemoreceptor origin for hypoxic ventilatory decline.
(2) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(3) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(4) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
(5) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(6) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(7) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
(8) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(9) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
(10) Interadjudicator agreement was stronger on 'originality' than on 'aesthetic pleasingness'.
(11) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(12) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(13) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(14) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.
(15) The position of the cyst supports the theory that branchial cysts are congenital in origin.
(16) heterografts of GW-39, a CEA-producing colonic tumor of human origin, was demonstrated in radioimmunoassay using radioiodinated CEA purified from GW-39.
(17) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.
(18) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(19) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(20) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.