(a.) Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subject which admits of them; neither inferior nor superior, greater nor less, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal quantities of land, water, etc. ; houses of equal size; persons of equal stature or talents; commodities of equal value.
(a.) Bearing a suitable relation; of just proportion; having competent power, abilities, or means; adequate; as, he is not equal to the task.
(a.) Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement.
(a.) Evenly balanced; not unduly inclining to either side; characterized by fairness; unbiased; impartial; equitable; just.
(a.) Of the same interest or concern; indifferent.
(a.) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed.
(a.) Exactly agreeing with respect to quantity.
(n.) One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or number; as, "If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal."
(n.) State of being equal; equality.
(v. t.) To be or become equal to; to have the same quantity, the same value, the same degree or rank, or the like, with; to be commen/urate with.
(v. t.) To make equal return to; to recompense fully.
(v. t.) To make equal or equal to; to equalize; hence, to compare or regard as equals; to put on equality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(2) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(3) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
(4) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(5) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(6) A NYHA-class greater than II was observed in 18% of patients with type-I hypertrophy, in 29% with type II, but in 61% with type III (p less than or equal to 0.05).
(7) The effect of S-adenosylhomocysteine on DNA methylation was examined, and it was found at equal molar concentrations of S-adenosylhomocysteine to to S-adenosylmethionine that DNA methylation was competitively inhibited 50%.
(8) All five individuals appeared to have acute C. pneumoniae infection as determined by results of serologic tests (titers of IgM antibody for all individuals were greater than or equal to 1:16).
(9) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
(10) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(11) The M 13 specific DNA present in minicells isolated several hours after infection consists of single stranded viral DNA and double stranded replicative forms in nearly equal amounts.
(12) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(13) At sufficiently high field intensities, the reaction may approach a value equal to that of the free enzyme system.
(14) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(15) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(16) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
(17) For obstruction of greater than or equal to 50% of the pulmonary vascular cross-sectional area and pulmonary hypertension thrombolytic therapy should be given and insertion of an inferior caval filter can be considered.
(18) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
(19) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(20) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
Iberian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Iberia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The WWF has warned that the Iberian lynx, found only in Spain and Portugal, could become the first big cat to go extinct since the sabre-tooth tiger died out 10,000 years ago.
(2) We conclude that Iberian pork feed with acorns have a very high content in monounsaturated fatty acids and can no be considered as harmful as other animals fats.
(3) The Iberian lynx is the only feline classified in the highest category of risk of extinction,” said Catherine Numa of the Spanish branch of the Geneva-based body.
(4) Spain's endangered Iberian lynx was brought back from brink of extinction thanks to an imaginative conservation programme that has brought hunters, farmers and the tourist industry under its wing.
(5) She also knew the land produced the most remarkable meat from rare Celto-Iberian goats.
(6) That evening, once again with a large plate of Celto-Iberian goatmeat in front of me, I raise a glass to Doña Pakyta and toast her foresight in preserving this stark and hypnotic landscape.
(7) The prevalence of several neurological diseases has been estimated in eighteen-year-old males living in the central provinces of the Iberian Peninsula (Avila, Badajoz, Caceres, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Madrid, Toledo and Segovia).
(8) We analyzed the genetic polymorphism of eight red cell enzymes in samples from different geographical areas of Tenerife and the Iberian peninsula.
(9) Of the 18 mammals surveyed, only the Iberian lynx ( Lynx pardinus ) is still declining, with a decrease of 84% since 1965 and only 279 individuals thought to remain in the wild.
(10) The author reports his Research Group and the Iberian Multicentre Group experiences in order to find a therapeutical solution for the rupture of the ventricular free wall (WR) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
(11) We defined five geographic areas: Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Northern Africa, Northern and Central Europe and the Near and Middle East.
(12) Ornithodoros erraticus was found in 30.7 per cent, 35.0 per cent and 71.0 per cent of the pig-pens sampled in the provinces of Salamanca, Badajoz and Huelva in which African swine fever is a problem in the rearing of Iberian pigs.
(13) Outbreaks occurred in central Spain in 1987 and in southern regions of the Iberian peninsula in 1988, 1989 and 1990.
(14) The gustatory centers (vagal lobes and facial lobe) and the tegment of the posterior rhombencephalon of the Iberian barb (Barbus comiza) have been studied using anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein (anti-GFAP) and anti-vimentin immunohistochemical techniques.
(15) Iberian lynx: back from the brink of extinction ... and run down by cars Read more The silky sea mammal, native to the west coast of California and off the Guadalupe islands of Mexico, has now moved from the “near threatened” to the “least concern” category, largely thanks to the enforcement of laws such as the USA Marine Mammal Protections Act, it said.
(16) Restriction endonuclease maps of the variable DNA regions of African swine fever virus field isolates from the Iberian peninsula showed that the changes in length are located in the terminal-inverted repetitions and in unique sequences close to the DNA ends.
(17) The world’s most endangered feline species, the Iberian lynx, is making a comeback in Spain after being pushed to the brink of extinction.
(18) Ribera spent much of his career in Naples, then a Spanish possession, and Philip IV was a keen collector of his work, helping spread Caravaggism to the Iberian peninsula.
(19) The situation is, therefore, not hopeless, a point that is reinforced by the example of the Iberian lynx, a feline whose story shares many features with the Highland wildcat.
(20) A clear association between the presence of several parasitic infections and false positive reactions was not found, but an important relation was shown between high background levels and the Iberian race in experimentally and conventionally raised pigs.