(a.) Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.
(a.) Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the development of Shvets' leukosis, the weight of spleen and lymph glands and their lymphocyte content change enormously while the number of plasmocytes rises exponentially.
(2) It has been an enormous improvement in our quality of life.
(3) However, it should be stressed that none of these mechanisms is mutually exclusive; indeed, the enormous complexity of tumor promotion suggests that several of the mechanisms discussed above may very well be interrelated.
(4) To not use those skills would be like Gigi Buffon not using his enormous hands.
(5) But he added: “My concern is that if we are to see a rapid move to a world in which all schools must become academies then there will be an enormous challenge to ensure that schools remain properly rooted in their local communities and accountable to parents.” A spokeswoman for the Department for Education rejected all the criticisms.
(6) The enormous magnitude of glutamine flowing from muscle to the kidneys is supported by adaptive increases in glutamine synthetase and mitochondrial glutaminase, respectively.
(7) There is an enormous sense of one rule for Them and another for Us.
(8) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
(9) An enormous occurrence of granular endoplasmic reticulum in the intestinal cells of P. commutatus shows an excessive protein synthesis.
(10) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
(11) The value of universities to the UK is enormous, generating £72bn in value to the UK economy in 2014 on a turnover of £27.3bn.
(12) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
(13) "We are enormously grateful that the Komen Foundation has clarified its grantmaking criteria, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Komen partners, leaders and volunteers.
(14) Shell, along with other oil companies, has been cleared by the Office of Fair Trading of profiteering on the UK petrol forecourt, but the $27bn annual earnings figure underlines the enormous global profits being made "upstream" – bringing oil and gas out of the ground.
(15) Unmanned drones help enormously with this problem as they can be operated via satellite from thousands of miles away and dramatically lower the risk to British forces.
(16) It was occupied by Aboriginal people for tens of thousands of years – 40,000 years.” The prime minister said he knew from his experience leading the unsuccessful campaign for an Australian republic that constitutional change was difficult and required “enormous public support”.
(17) While it has not dominated the enormous mobile phone market in terms of sales – Apple has sold 41m handsets in three years, the same number Nokia sells in a month – it has won much of the more lucrative smartphone market, and drove its competitors to develop their own touchscreen handsets.
(18) For example, if the risk estimates from underground miners' studies are, in truth, not applicable to home exposures and overestimate the gradient of risk from home exposure to radon by, for example, a factor of 2, then enormously large numbers of subjects would be required to detect the difference.
(19) Breeding experiments in mice have illustrated the enormous genetic heterogeneity of this syndrome, of which the final common pathway is a widespread immune complex disease.
(20) The primary source of the enhancement of adhesion is due to the enormous increase of the retentive active surface created by the metal plasma.
Infinitesimal
Definition:
(a.) Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small.
(n.) An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any assignable quantity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first 2 ms of these transients were described by a linear model in which the fibre is regarded as a rod composed of infinitesimally small, identical segments containing a mass, one undamped elastic element and in the case of relaxed fibres two damped elastic elements in series, or in the case of activated fibres three such elastic elements in series.
(2) These equations can be solved easily by stepwise numerical integration involving sucessive infinitesimal rotations (SIR).
(3) The present day IBV might be progeny from a unique pool of primordial genome via mutation and host-induced variation, or even persistence of primordial virus as an infinitesimal portion of the population.
(4) Examples of current input considered are (1) an infinitesimally brief (Dirac delta function) pulse and (2) a step pulse.
(5) Pickup, now 71, recalls the "horrible, infinitesimal detail of how accurate you had to be, partly because you didn't want stones bouncing off the pram into the audience".
(6) The chances of Keeler being installed in Downing Street were infinitesimal.
(7) For infinitesimal steps the eigen-functions of the diffusion operator are known analytically, while for random motion of arbitrary step size they are determined by diagonalizing the transition matrix appropriate for the step model used.
(8) The two principal plasminogen activators (PA) and the two PA-inhibitors are present in infinitesimal concentrations in blood (pM to microM range) and in tissues.
(9) Experimental spectra are compared with computer simulations of spectra carried out for isotropic Brownian (limit of infinitesimal step size) and free diffusion (arbitrary step size) models.
(10) The infinitesimal change in entropy of a system (dS) is calculated by measuring how much heat has entered a closed system (δQ) divided by the common temperature (T) at the point where the heat transfer took place.
(11) However, incidence data indicate the chance of disclosing tumors, non-inflammatory cysts or other serious bone disease in the asymptomatic patient by screening jaw films is infinitesimal.
(12) Statistical analysis permitted empirical evaluation of creep of the cellular membrane within the range of infinitesimal stress.
(13) "The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small," he argues, "and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun."
(14) Of course, fear of risk is actually the bestselling tool of all: it is the basis of the entire insurance industry, whose profit base is predicated on the fact that fear is a very real emotion selling the product, but the statistical probability of anything actually happening, well, that is infinitesimal.
(15) The armed seizure of the Crimean parliament, the cynical insistence that Russian troops were not operating in Crimea when they clearly were, and the breakneck speed and flagrant violations involved in organising the Crimean referendum at short notice have been hidden behind a thread of plausible deniability stretched infinitesimally thin – and a knowing smirk on Putin's face.
(16) It is shown that the behavior of these waves may be explained, to a large extent, by considering the effect of the continuous stream of infinitesimal reflections that is set up whenever any wave travels in a region of vessel where the local impedance, (that is, the ratio of elastic wavespeed to tube area) is not constant.
(17) These changes could not be attributed to the effects of inbreeding or of selection in an infinitesimal model and suggested that some change in variance due to change in gene frequency had occurred during the course of the experiment.
(18) Ten healthy subjects received two treatments: a single 1 g oral dose of nalidixic acid (NA) followed 1 h later by either an infinitesimal dilution of the drug (NA 7CH) or by succussed water which served as placebo.
(19) The finite deformation theory describes the large strain behavior of cartilage observed in one-dimensional confined compression experiments at equilibrium, and it reduces to the linear biphasic theory under infinitesimal strain and slow strain rate conditions.
(20) Watson jokes that he has worked out that his Luton Town has an infinitesimally small chance of making it to the Premier League in time for matches to be aired on BT Vision before the end of the three-year deal in 2016.