(n.) The number greater by a unit than seven; eight units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing eight units, as 8 or viii.
Example Sentences:
(1) These eight large plasmids had indistinguishable EcoRI restriction patterns.
(2) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(3) A series of eight patients with multiple meningiomas is presented.
(4) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(5) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
(6) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
(7) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(8) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
(9) "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.'
(10) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
(11) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(12) Due to continued disease relapse in this group (four of eight patients), long-term survivors should not be identified for a minimum of 3.5 years from the time of initial therapy.
(13) The IgM antibody was found at high titers in each of 70 patients with inflammatory liver disease and at a low titer in one of six patients with inactive cirrhosis; it was not found in eight carriers with normal liver histology.
(14) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(15) This competence persists over the eight measurement points.
(16) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
(17) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).
(18) In the subgroup of children under age 5 years at the time of diagnosis, 10 of 11 showed neuropsychologic deficits, and eight of 11 had white matter changes.
(19) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(20) Eight patients aged 7-15 were using inhaled sympathomimetic aerosols only at the time of buying a nebuliser as compared with most of the older patients, who were using regular oral steroids.
Octet
Definition:
(n.) A composition for eight parts, usually for eight solo instruments or voices.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the piece I'd nominate is the first movement of Mendelssohn's Octet.
(2) The string octet that accompanied him then had provided a safety net of sorts.
(3) The genetic code doublets can be divided into two octets of completely degenerate and ambiguous coding dinucleotides.
(4) With these coordinates a successful topological classification of the crystal structures of octet and suboctet binary compounds is obtained, and a clear delineation of the structural classes portraying chemical periodicity is found.
(5) An EPR spectrum of the enzyme as isolated reveals a signal corresponding to high spin Co(II) at temperatures below 20 K. The signal appears as a partially resolved 59Co octet centered at an apparent g value of 7.
(6) Rosie Swash Mendelssohn's Octet I cry all the time at music.
(7) This program is compatible with any IBM PC microcomputer and includes a hard disk of 10 or 20 mega-octets.
(8) The conventionally stained somatic chromosomes of O. americanus can be arranged into sets of four similar chromosomes (quartets); those of C. ornata, into sets of eight similar chromosomes (octets).
(9) These two octets have the algebraic property of lying on continuously connected planes on the group graph (a tesseract) of the Cartesian product of two Klein 4-groups of nucleotide exchange operators.
(10) These structural heterogeneities within the quartets and octets are interpreted as a "diploidization" of the polyploid karyotypes.
(11) The ability of the mutated HlyA molecules to initiate membrane translocation and be secreted required the presence of the C terminus and, to a degree, the repeated amino acid octets.
(12) A string octet was duly summoned to the studio, in the process astrally chauffeuring Kirby 36 years back to Cambridge, where these arrangements were last performed: 'You know sometimes, when you catch a smell from long ago, and it knocks you for six?
(13) In analogy, some octets of C. ornata can be subdivided into two quartets of chromosomes with homologous bands.
(14) In this adduct, the greater than N:B bond is coordinate, involving the free electron pair of nitrogen, thereby satisfying the octet rule for the second electron shell of boron (Group IIIA).
(15) The two octets of coding doublets have the further algebraic property that the product of their internal exchange operators naturally divide into two exactly equivalent sets.