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Eon


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Aeon

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
  • (2) Casino Royale, whose rights had been individually sold off by Fleming in 1955, eventually passed to Eon in 1999 as a result of an agreement between Eon’s backers MGM and rival Hollywood studio Sony – thereby clearing the way for the 2006 version.
  • (3) Eon only regained the rights to use Spectre and Blofeld in 007 movies last year after resolving a long-running legal dispute stretching back to a suggestion, in 1959, by the Irish writer Kevin McClory that Ian Fleming, the spy’s creator, should pen a Bond film set in the Bahamas .
  • (4) Accumulation of random mutations and large macromolecular sequence change in all organisms since the Proterozoic Eon has been importantly supplemented by acquisition of inherited genomes ('symbiogenesis').
  • (5) Karyotypic alterations (polyploidization and karyotypic fissioning) have been added to these other mechanisms of species origin in plants and animals during the Phanerozoic Eon.
  • (6) Authentic Scottish Labour, no longer a “branch office” of the party in Westminster, needs to keep top talent at Holyrood, after eons of brain-drain southwards.
  • (7) Ofgem is understood to believe the big six – Centrica's British Gas, EDF Energy, RWE Npower, SSE, Eon and Scottish Power – hold up to £400m in millions of accounts closed after customers switched suppliers or moved home.
  • (8) Vin reminds me that we have not had a change in score since the third inning, which was eons ago.
  • (9) In his first major interview since taking office, Will Day, the incoming chair of the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), told the Guardian that construction of new coal stations, such as the planned Eon Kingsnorth facility in Kent, would provide a "lightning rod" for international protest.
  • (10) However, it’s clear that Eon does its best to use British directors, reinforcing the national brand identity that is part of the Bond selling point.
  • (11) However, after a six-year break, Eon installed Martin Campbell in the chair: another experienced director, but one who was able to orchestrate one of the most elaborate stunts in Bond history.
  • (12) Frankly, producers Eon would have been better off giving the lead to Madonna’s innuendo-dispensing fencing instructor, but perhaps the idea deserves a revamp more than a decade on.
  • (13) The Sky deal comprises the 22 official Bond films made by Eon Productions as well as two non-Eon movies – Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again.
  • (14) Don Lieper , director of new business at Eon, said: "We take this very seriously – it is a legal requirement.
  • (15) But he appeared to rule himself out in April, telling an audience at London’s British Film Institute that he had given up on getting the call from 007 production company Eon.
  • (16) Local distributor eOne was quick to trumpet this achievement as bigger than the UK opening of Slumdog Millionaire (£1.83m from 324 cinemas), and with a higher screen average than the debut of The King's Speech (£8,919).
  • (17) For example, the functional competence of most, if not all, of the sugar-metabolizing enzymes was clearly established before the division of eukaryotes from prokaryotes eons ago, each critical active-site amino acid sequence being conserved ever since by bacteria as well as by mammals.
  • (18) Photograph: eOne If he is indeed the nemesis of Luke Skywalker & Co, he has bodybuilder-size shoes to fill ( David Prowse , who wore the original suit, stood at 6ft 6in).
  • (19) This paper outlines the content of that core curriculum and presents EONS' subsequent plans to design educational courses in all aspects of cancer care for European nurses.
  • (20) The sites have been nominated by the energy giants EDF, Eon and RWE, and by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which owns some nuclear sites.

Period


Definition:

  • (n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
  • (n.) A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
  • (n.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
  • (n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
  • (n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
  • (n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
  • (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.
  • (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
  • (n.) A complete musical sentence.
  • (v. t.) To put an end to.
  • (v. i.) To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
  • (2) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
  • (3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (4) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (5) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
  • (6) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
  • (7) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
  • (8) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
  • (9) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
  • (10) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
  • (11) During this period he developed autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a rare complication of myelofibrosis.
  • (12) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
  • (13) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
  • (14) Maximal aberration yields were observed for 2,4-diaminotoluene, 2,6-diaminotoluene and cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside from 17 to 21 h, eugenol from 15 to 21 h, cadmium sulfate from 15 to 24 h and 2-aminobiphenyl, from 17 to 24 h. For adriamycin at 1 microM, the % aberrant cells remained elevated throughout the period from 9 to 29 h, while small increases at 0.1 microM ADR were found only at 13 and at 25 h. For most chemicals the maximal aberration yield occurred at a different time for each concentration tested.
  • (15) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
  • (16) During electrophysiologic study, the effect of propafenone on the effective refractory period of the accessory pathway was determined, as well as its effect during orthodromic atrioventricular (AV) reentrant tachycardia and atrial fibrillation.
  • (17) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
  • (18) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
  • (19) Anthropometric and nutritional (serum albumin and transferrin) values were normal in both groups both at the beginning and at the end of the treatment period.
  • (20) Analysis of conjugated discharges ACHs showed that they appeared predominantly periodically (87% of cases).

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