(n.) The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
(n.) Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.
Example Sentences:
(1) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(2) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(3) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(4) This suggests that the latter group does not possess the genetic equipment (Ir genes) to recognize the antigenic determinants and to synthesize the corresponding antibodies.
(5) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(6) The importance of proper disinfection of such equipment cannot be overemphasized.
(7) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(8) The indication of the DNA probe method would be considered in the four cases as follows, 1. necessity of the special equipment to isolate the pathogen, 2. necessity of the long period to isolate the pathogen, 3. existence of the cross reaction among the pathogen and relative organisms in the immunological procedure, 4. existence of the difficulty to identify the species of the pathogen by the ordinary procedure.
(9) Even though there are variations among equipment bearing the same model number it was considered worthwhile to make available relative cavitational and temperature data.
(10) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
(11) The first part of this survey which dealt with equipment for the anterior segment was published in a previous issue of this journal.
(12) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(13) It is anomalous that the world is equipped with global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change, but not humanitarian crises.
(14) A simple technique is described for producing enhanced radiographs of excised breast specimens with clinical mammographic equipment.
(15) Drones and helicopter strikes are not equipped with political night-vision.
(16) In addition to the threat of industrial espionage to sustain this position, there is an inherent risk of Chinese equipment being used for intelligence purposes.
(17) A planned, induced labor with regional anesthesia and continuous invasive monitoring in a well-equipped medical center provides the safest setting for delivery.
(18) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(19) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(20) At the same time optical and mechanical systems of the Soviet-made sigmoidoscope, model CBO-1, an apparatus equipped with fibrous optical elements for transmission of ligh and image, now in batch production, are described.
Glassware
Definition:
(n.) Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) This modified assay system obviates the need to sterilize culture medium and glassware.
(2) In order to rationalize work and to reduce the consumption of laboratory glassware a reduction micromethod with the bacterial stain Streptococcus thermophilus has been modified; the method is used to detect inhibitory substances in genuine, pausteurized and dried milk, and it is performed on a serological plate made from organic glass.
(3) A modified Shore procedure for large scale assays in human biopsies was developed including reference luminescence values for all reagents, cleaning material and glassware, reduction of OPD concentration to 0.05%, purification of n-heptan, omission of centrifugation steps in the extraction procedure and use of 2 ml 1 M HClO4 in the homogenization step to prevent losses of histamine due to adherence to the mechanical homogenizer.
(4) These factors include pH readjustment to 7.40 after serum storage; choice of buffers for dialysis; the effect of phosphate buffer ionic strength; temperature of storage for serum samples; the use of untreated versus silanized glassware for storage; and age of serum.
(5) A simple procedure for culturing mouse embryos during early organogenetic stages is described in this report that will be of value to teratologists; it avoids the requirements of special glassware and equipment by using ordinary capped test tubes which are rotated tomaintain and efficient nutritional and gaseous evnironment.
(6) The following conditions adversely affect the reproducibility of the test: pollution of laboratory atmosphere and glassware by NH3-containing detergents; smoking by patient or analyst; delay, turbulence, or use of heparin lock in venipuncture; delay or warming of plasma above degrees C before mixing it with resin; and delay in colorimetric analysis of resin eluate.
(7) After pasteurization, however, the product became contaminated with a secondary Enterococcus infection due to the improperly cleaned glassware and equipment.
(8) Replacement of Soxhlet extraction with the sonication technique results in reduced sample preparation time, decreased volumes of solvents and sample, and substitution of common laboratory glassware in place of fragile, expensive Soxhlet glassware.
(9) Much of what you’re paying for at this level isn’t just what you’re putting down your neck, but service and ambience – the perfection of glittering glassware, exquisite presentation, the ministrations of the senior sommelier.
(10) With new designs – the glassware is still for sale today – the pair dropped clocks and plates which were part of their range to focus solely on the kitchen at around the same time as Richard had a eureka moment in New York.
(11) The major technical difficulties in meeting this apparently simple proposition are: establishing adequately sensitive radioimmunoassays; avoidance of adhesion to ultrafilters and glassware; removal from the ultrafilters of compounds which would cross-react or interfere in the radioimmunoassays; and avoidance of co-filtration of thyroid hormone binding proteins in serum, which would obviously imply spurious data.
(12) This upper limit appears to be set by the inability to completely eliminate catalytic metal contamination of solutions and glassware.
(13) Poor precision in the first 2 studies was caused by a number of factors, including use of contaminated glassware, improperly maintained instruments, and impure reagents as standards.
(14) The purified radioligands showed similar chemical properties (stability to storage, efficient phase separation with dextran-coated charcoal, low adsorption to glassware).
(15) Unsurprisingly, interviewees often found meaning in heirlooms: books engraved with family names, and antiques and glassware from their grandparents.
(16) On the contrary, in the cells adhered to the substratum of glassware, no degeneration and no inhibitory effect were observed.
(17) Results showed that either of the 2 subdued light conditions, yellow or golden fluorescent light, is suitable in vitamin B6 assays and that low actinic glassware is suitable for storing sample solutions.
(18) A brief overview of the field of analytical artifacts is provided, with examples of solvent impurities, stabilizers, polymer additives, and problems relating to Teflon, glassware, and laboratory contaminants.
(19) As chairman of the fine china and glassware firm, O'Reilly had invested €400m over the past five years along with his brother-in-law, Peter Goulandris, and the private equity fund Lazard Alternative Investments.
(20) BAL was performed in all subjects, 3 x 60 ml aliquots of buffered saline being introduced into a segment of the middle lobe and immediately aspirated into siliconized glassware at 4 degrees C. After filtration, cells were counted, and the cell pellet resuspended in medium 199.