(n.) The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most important conclusions for basic research on 'fast fibers', for clinical ophthalmo-electromyography and for the duality concept of eyemovement control are given.
(2) New-Hebrides Condominium, an archipelago in the South Pacific, is a country with a special socio-political environment, due to the duality of its French-British regime.
(3) It is not easy to see a simple outline in the progress of the idea of duality, because it did not develop evenly or reach the stage of general acceptance.
(4) The intracranial click image with long disparities and duality threshold was evaluated.
(5) The weight distribution of S for RI demonstrates the heterogeneity of this material, and the variation in the weight distribution with ionic strength demonstrates the duality of structure in RI.
(6) We show that the diversity-selection duality of Darwinian evolution is achieved at this state if we start from four different monomers capable of forming two complementary pairs.
(7) These observations give a new convincing support of the genetic basis of the molecular duality of DNA ligases.
(8) It is a show, in some ways, nostalgic for the dualities of 60s protest (currently celebrated in the V&A exhibition You Say You Want a Revolution?
(9) The existence of two types of neurons corresponding to these two fibres cannot yet be asserted, but seems very likely, perhaps connected with the hormonal duality of the magnocellular nuclei.
(10) In the light of the cases reported, it would appear that the scintigraphic picture of the "hot" nodule is more in favor of a duality between the latter and healthy tissue with respect to iodine than of a hypersensitivity to TSH.
(11) As a consequence, family attachment styles, which proceed-throughout development-together with personal identity construction processes, stress the notion of relationship as a dialectical and interactive process, defining the irreducible duality of human experience, in which the personal individuality construction is linked, since the earliest phases of life, to the significant relationships.
(12) Collectively, these findings demonstrate that ET-1 exerts a potent duality of action in rabbit TSM which varies significantly with maturation, wherein 1) age-dependent differences in airway relaxation are associated with changes in the evoked release of bronchodilatory prostaglandins and 2) maturational differences in airway contraction are associated with changes in Ins(1,4,5)P3 accumulation and extracellular Ca2+ mobilization, coupled to differences in PKC activation.
(13) An explanation of this apparent duality is suggested by recent reports that Bof is a corepressor of genes that are regulated by the phage C1 repressor, including the autoregulated c1 gene itself.
(14) We discuss whether this duality is caused by the triggering of different B cell subpopulations at different developmental stages, preprogramed to one or the other pathway or whether the final direction of development depends on the microenvironment of individual dividing cells.
(15) Duality between automatism and interactivity is provided.
(16) The transformation group has the following properties: duality of invariance, non-divergency of transformations produced, and availability of indirect test of invariance.
(17) Related to this, few appreciate that the perceived duality of options constituted by "sampling by exposure" and "sampling by outcome" is, similarly, but an illusion.
(18) For uncovering striking evidence of strong-weak duality in certain supersymmetric string theories and gauge theories, opening the path to the realisation that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory.
(19) For contributions to physics spanning topics such as new applications of topology to physics, non-perturbative duality symmetries, models of particle physics derived from string theory, dark matter detection, and the twistor-string approach to particle scattering amplitudes, as well as numerous applications of quantum field theory to mathematics.
(20) The rates of decay of virus neutralizing and haemagglutination inhibition antibodies in vaccinated birds showed a divergence indicating the possible duality of antibodies measured in serum neutralization and haemagglutination inhibition tests.
Plane
Definition:
(n.) Any tree of the genus Platanus.
(a.) Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.
(a.) A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.
(a.) An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.
(a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.
(a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.
(a.) To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.
(a.) To efface or remove.
(a.) Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
(3) Typically the iron-iron axis (gz) of the binuclear iron-sulfur clusters is in the membrane plane.
(4) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(5) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(6) Deviations in two planes simultaneously cause less error than deviation in one plane.
(7) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(8) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(9) All the wounded Britons have been repatriated , including four severely injured people who were brought back by an RAF C-17 transport plane.
(10) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
(11) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(12) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(13) The technique of two-plane angiography of femoro-popliteal bypasses with 90 degrees knee flexion is described.
(14) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(15) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
(16) The resistance is a complex function of the perfusion pressure and the cross-sectional area of the stenosis and cannot be accurately predicted from a single plane angiographic image.
(17) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(18) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
(19) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(20) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.