(a.) Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon.
(n.) A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others; also, a figure of equal sides.
Example Sentences:
(1) A significant concentration of the activity could be observed for the most part in the equilateral Lymphonoduli cervicales profundi and superficiales and for the less part also in the equilateral Lymphonoduli mandibulares and contralateral Lymphonoduli cervicales profoundi.
(2) Electron micrographs of negatively stained hexamers show a characteristic curvilinear, equilateral triangle of 12 nm in diameter (top view) and a rectangle measuring 10 x 12 nm (side view).
(3) At poles of cells, microfibrils do not terminate but pass around three equilaterally arranged points, resulting in microfibril continuity between the twelve helically wound wall layers.
(4) Microtubules capable of binding a xamimum of 4 linkers are arranged in regularly distorted hexagons and equilateral triangles.
(5) We present a configuration of 3 applicators subtended by an equilateral triangle in order to target and relocate a 'hot spot' for improved treatment of deep tumors.
(6) The Haberdasher's Puzzle is an equilateral triangle that is cut into four pieces that can be rearranged into a square.
(7) This method consists of forming two equilaterally triangular mucosal flaps on the vermilion and a small triangular skin flap in the new position of the commissure and transposing these three flaps to reconstruct the commissure.
(8) 3- and 4-year-old children and adults were asked to judge which way an equilateral triangle was pointing under different contextual conditions.
(9) Electronic subtraction of the voltage variations near the angle of the mouth from the voltage variations at the equilateral eye cancels the cardiac interference and allows a pure recording of horizontal eye movements.
(10) The ophthalmologist's management team might be likened to an equilateral triangle, the base of which consists of the personal banker and the two other parts being attorney and accountant.
(11) Visuospatial processing in alcoholics was investigated by aligning two elements along different axes of an equilateral triangle and asking subjects to report the direction the triangle appeared to point when first observed.
(12) For this purpose, an equilateral triangular flap of 2.5 cm per side was formed at the upper margin of the remaining stomach along the greater curvature.
(13) The pulmonary vein fat pad (PVFP) in the dog heart is triangular in shape with roughly equilateral dimensions of approximately 1 cm, its base extending from superior to inferior veins, and its apex extending nearly to the sinus nodal artery as it courses rostrally in the sulcus terminalis.
(14) Crucial to our approach is the creation of a net of approximately equilateral triangles from which we generate the control points used as the basis for describing the surface.
(15) We suppose that three capillaries, which are parallel to each other and have the same radius and circular section, are arranged in equilateral triangle.
(16) Clusters of three pseudopods characterized by short distances (6-9 microns) and equilateral organization (angles 40-60 degrees) were observed after a 10-min stimulation.
(17) God does not want you to eat an equilateral egg, which makes it a forbidden fruit, and there is nothing sweeter.
(18) After injection in the anterior chamber a significant concentration could be observed for the most part in the equilateral Lymphonodulus cervicalis superficialis.
(19) In 1979, as homework for Rubik, Erdély devised a new shape made out of a sequence of alternate, and shrinking, equilateral and isosceles triangles.
(20) Based on this, a new explanatory model has been constructed, consisting of an equilateral triangle with one of the apices on a horizontal line, along which dietary and oral hygiene habits are scaled.
Tetrahedron
Definition:
(n.) A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to increase understanding of the control of inositol-1,3,4-trisphosphate kinase activity, the enzyme was highly purified from rat liver by precipitation with polyethylene glycol, MonoQ ion-exchange chromatography, heparin-agarose affinity chromatography, and a novel affinity chromatography procedure that utilized Affi-Gel resin to which InsP6 was coupled (Marecek, J.F., and Prestwich, G.D. (1991) Tetrahedron Lett.
(2) The folding of murine interleukin-1 beta is similar to that found for the human variant, consisting of 12 beta strands wrapped around a core of hydrophobic side chains in a tetrahedron-like fashion.
(3) The anion [Cd(DiMeDMSA)2]2- is essentially a distorted tetrahedron, with a mononuclear CdS4 kernel.
(4) If you're a researcher in any academic discipline, your reputation and career prospects are largely determined by your publications in journals of mind-bending specialisation – like Tetrahedron , a journal specialising in organic chemistry and published by the Dutch company Elsevier.
(5) Six shapes (ring, tetrahedron, cloverleaf, disk, string, and pellet) were screened in vivo for their gastric retention potential.
(6) 124, 107-115; Lowe (1976) Tetrahedron 32, 291-302] were based on assumed models that are not consistent with the X-ray-diffraction data for papain inhibited by alkylation of Cys-25 with N-benzyloxycarbonyl-Phe-Ala-chloromethane [Drenth, Kalk & Swen (1976) Biochemistry 15, 3731-3738].
(7) Reporting a set of bile samples on the tetrahedron of concentrations, a clear separation emerged between the control bile, the bile from patients with gallstones, and the bile of subjects with gallbladder dyskinesia.
(8) [1975), Tetrahedron Lett., 25, 2065-2068) and MAOP was synthesized by acetoxylation of MOP with lead tetraacetate.
(9) We have examined the mechanism of action of two natural products identified as broad spectrum antifungal agents (VanMiddlesworth, F., Dufresne, C., Wincott, F. E., Mosley, R. T., and Wilson, K. E. (1992) Tetrahedron Lett., in press; VanMiddlesworth, F., Giacobbe, R. A., Lopez, M. Garrity, G., Bland, J.
(10) Using an in vitro system of bubbles in water or gelatin, it was found that the ring-down artifact originated from the center of a cluster of four bubbles (bubble tetrahedron), three on top and one nestled beneath.
(11) The catalase molecule consists of four subunits whose centers from a fairly flattened tetrahedron.
(12) The observation of occasional triangular and dual-intensity projections and the interconversion of all three projection forms in tilting studies indicates that this tetrameric enzyme has a structure very similar to the tetrahedron-like configuration previously proposed for pyruvate carboxylases from vertebrate sources [Mayer, F., Wallace, J. C. and Keech, D. B.
(13) RV volume was calculated from the polyhedron created by the markers by decomposing the polyhedron into 24 tetrahedrons, each of whose volumes could be solved from the xyz-coordinates of markers.
(14) (1990, Tetrahedron 46, 2255) as an inhibitor of human leucocyte elastase (HLE) displayed potent, time-dependent inhibition of both HLE and human cathepsin G (Cat-G).
(15) The figure of tetrahedron is formed in certain species of Plectus and in Tobrilus gracilis at the stage of 4 blastomeres rather than a rhombus which is formed in most highly organized nematodes.
(16) A tetrahedronal symmetry is exploited, with two skewed plastic scintillator bars spanning a large sensitive volume.
(17) The tetrahedrons (each leg 2 cm in length) exhibited 91-100% retention at 24 hr.
(18) Altogether, the in vitro binding constant of seven molecules were used to deduce the geometry and the energetics of a possible site model consisting of five regions: one tetrahedron-shaped finite central hydrophobic pocket, one infinite region representing access to the solvent, and three strongly repulsive regions representing the sterically forbidden walls of the pocket.
(19) Phaseolin converts to an 18 S tetramer at acid pH, and images recorded under these conditions suggest that four of the 7 S protomer discs associate to form the faces of a regular tetrahedron.
(20) The volumes defined by four beads (a tetrahedron) at end diastole showed increases in myocardial mass of 20-27% after 3.6 (mean) weeks of hypertrophy and were uniform across the wall of the left ventricle.