(a.) Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe.
(a.) Uniform in action or intensity; not variable or changing; -- said of the feelings or temper.
Example Sentences:
(1) It added: "The NSA ask is not static and retaining 'equability' will remain a challenge for the near future."
(2) Auerbach has disappeared before I can broach the subject, but Carney is equable.
(3) The North Sea is characterised by equable temperatures.
(4) She says this entirely equably, without boast or rancour.
(5) "What happens is, I'm pretty equable and pretty much the same most of the time," he says with a shrug.
(6) On the contrary, the long equable solenoid of nucleosomes provides complete protection of histone H5.
(7) Because of the more equable range of temperatures, less work on seasonality has been done in the tropics.
(8) In contrast, for the M + M combination there was an equable distribution of either tomato cpDNA or that of S. lycopersicoides among the 34 hybrid plants.
(9) From day 15 to day 20 after parturition the cell height of coherent surface epithelium and uterine glands became equable and stabilized (16-32 microns), and the lamina propria assumed its cellular nature with marked infiltration of polymorphonuclears and lymphocytes.
(10) For drivers it could mean huge savings on fuel: the RAC believes the average motorist could save up to £620 a year by driving more equably.
(11) Five-year-experiences have shown that a considerably intensified tolerance of the skin and an absorption equability of tissues and bones and muscles are obtained with the hard ray roentgen irradiator, RT 305, for half-value depths from 20 mm to 70 mm H-2O and half-value thickness to about 7 mm Cu.
(12) How do we take the power we need to make a new, equable, constitutional settlement?
(13) Termite hills and rodent borrows were the most productive habitats, an observation accounted for by the predilection of sandflies to seek microhabitats offering high humidities and equable temperatures to avoid high summer temperature and low relative humidities of outside environment.
Steady
Definition:
(n.) Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
(n.) Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.
(n.) Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.
(v. t.) To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute.
(v. i.) To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(2) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(3) In the cannulated group, significant decreases (P less than 0.05) in the area under the elimination curve (AUC), the volume of distribution at steady-state (Vdss) and the mean residence time (MRT) were observed.
(4) At the steady state the intracellular concentration of PteGlu was 120-fold higher from that of the medium.
(5) In a steady-state exercise test this difference developed gradually during the first 10 min of exercise.
(6) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
(7) This 520-nm change can be used for the continuous measurement of pH changes in thylakoids during steady-state illumination.
(8) Steady state levels of chloroplast mRNA encoding the core PSII polypeptides remain nearly constant in the light or the dark and are not affected by the developmental stage of the plastid.
(9) The changes in muscle activity had the same pattern and similar phase-frequency properties to those observed under analogous vestibular stimulation during the maintenance of steady posture.
(10) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
(11) In all cases studied, the presence of a translation termination codon correlates with a decrease in the steady-state level of mRNA.
(12) We measured the steady-state volumes of distribution for radioactive chloride, sucrose, and albumin in the lung of six anesthetized, spen-thorax sheep.
(13) As many as 25 turnovers of the transport cycle per monomer can occur prior to attainment of steady state.
(14) For these augmented breaths, tidal volume, inspiratory time, and expiratory time were not different from the next augmented breath occurring in the same run in the steady state.
(15) Carotid nerves block provoked transient ventilatory depression, decreasing VT by 46% and fR by 26%, followed by recovery to steady-state values in VT, fR and PETCO2.
(16) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(17) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(18) Rates for homicide have remained steady and have a distinct profile.
(19) A method is described for the accurate, rapid measurement of the unbound fractions of estradiol and of progesterone in small volumes of plasma or serum at 37 degrees C by a miniature method of steady-state gel filtration.
(20) The possibility that S. mutans was capable of aciduric adaptation during a biologically-generated pH reduction was examined by mixing cultures of both organisms after each had been grown to steady state at pH 5.5 in separate chemostats.