(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.
Seventeenth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.
(a.) Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.
(n.) An interval of two octaves and a third.
Example Sentences:
(1) The location of the Y chromosome in metaphase figures was studied, with respect to its polymorphism, on 700 micrographs from blood lymphocyte cultures from 70 normal male members of seven Canadian family lines whose polymorphic Y chromosomes were inherited in a patrilinear fashion from seventeenth-century French ancestors.
(2) James Cooke, author of one of the most popular English surgical textbooks of the seventeenth century, in an amusing and previously unnoted reference, adds to this denigration and helps to explain why nasal reconstruction became a subject of satire in England.
(3) The ability to excrete a water load was severely limited on the fifth day, but improved progressively by the tenth and seventeenth days.
(4) Beginning with the seventeenth century, when the main scientific foundations were laid, an account is given of the development of various clinical techniques for the assessment of visual acuity and ametropia.
(5) In the seventeenth day after admission, he died of lung edema and heart failure.
(6) At the seventeenth gestational week, endochondral ossification of the condylar process appeared, the formation of joint cavities was fairly completed, and synovial tissues were easily observed.
(7) William Petty, physician, epidemiologist, political economist, demographer, cartographer, and administrator was an intellectual product of the seventeenth century.
(8) In the seventeenth century, the Petition of Right gave new authority to Parliament; and the Bill of Rights set limits on the power of the monarchy.
(9) Documentation of the seventeenth case of melanoma of the rectum is presented.
(10) Basing on Heidegger's discussion of the opposing, albeit complementary, positions taken by Leibniz and by the seventeenth-century East German mystic Angelus Silesius in respect of the concept of the nature and grounds of knowledge and reason, the author attempts to extend the scope of recent experimental epistemologists such as Varela and v. Foerster, pointing out the fundamental dilemmas inherent in the act of cognition, with which--among others--researchers in psychotherapy are confronted.
(11) Attempts to recommend the book to modern readers have missed the point that Burton, more clearly than other seventeenth century writers on melancholy, sees traumatic loss of attachment figures, status symbols and personal health as predisposing to mood disorders.
(12) We now have the moral leadership of the world, and before many years are over we shall have people coming here as to a modern Mecca, learning from us in the twentieth century as they learned from us in the seventeenth," said Mr Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, at a Labour rally in Manchester yesterday.
(13) The total cell count on the seventeenth day was 50% of the initial cell count and the cells were almost entirely small, apparently healthy lymphocytes.
(14) To our knowledge, this represents the seventeenth histologically proved case.
(15) Despite the better than expected PMI, firms have continued to reduce jobs in the sector for the seventeenth month in a row in September.
(16) Stature increase is minimal (though seventeenth century Londoners and modern West Africans are shorter than Colonial to Modern Americans); teeth deteriorate and for cultural reasons fractures increase.
(17) All cold-treated groups had an elevation of systolic blood pressure that was proportional to the concentration of NaCl in the diet by the seventeenth week of exposure to cold.
(18) In the sacral levels adjacent to the conus medullaris, the spreading to surface layers was not apparent bilaterally until the seventeenth week.
(19) Dissection of the females on the seventeenth day after the beginning of the mating has shown that the preimplantation is increased when the males are twelve months old whereas exposure to ionizing radiations enhances only the postimplantation loss.
(20) Cytochrome oxidase increases up to the seventeenth week of life, and then decreases in older animals.