(n.) The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
(n.) The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.
(n.) Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun.
(n.) A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 45 days of the exposition, the protective action of these soaps were evaluated.
(2) Essential parameters of hepatic functioning in 84 labourers, whose exposition to benzene is differing in assimilation as well as length of time is discussed.--45 persons from the same county without contact to benzene or hepatotoxic agents served as control-group.
(3) The structural block diagram of the appropriate outfit for exposition automation in endoscopy is under discussion.
(4) This article summarizes the increased absorption levels of mercury among dwellers of Ciudad Cristiana Housing Project in Humacao, Puerto Rico confirming the exposition to the metal as documented by sediment analysis of the area performed by the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board.
(5) Reference is made to De Gaetano's exposition of Walsh's views concerning the rôle of platelets in clotting.
(6) A photograph, first exhibited by the Department of Psychology of Clark University at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is included, and further illustrates the importance of these instruments to historians.
(7) The influence of the electric field of commerical frequency on metabolism and interorgan distribution of copper, molybdenum, iron and manganese was studied in the 4-month experiment on animals with their daily 30-minute exposition.
(8) Hot on the heels of the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai’s 2010 Expo was the biggest in history, spread across an area five times the size of Milan’s exposition at a cost of $50bn (£32bn) – a level of ambition that saw 18,000 families forcibly displaced , according to Amnesty International.
(9) The differential diagnosis of unclear carcinoma-suspicious renal findings often finishes with the test-exposition and nephrectomy.
(10) It is assumed that the neutral point of the spatial frame of reference for coding spatial position is at the position where attention is focussed immediately before exposition of the stimulus pattern.
(11) The author exposits his adherence to universal determinism and attempts to answer the question, "What sort of possibility and ethics are permitted in a deterministic universe?"
(12) Its simplest exposition is called the "Monty Hall" problem, from the US TV show Let's Make a Deal.
(13) In the absence of any coronary disorders--after a long CO exposition--necrosis of the papillary muscles have been revealed.
(14) It is shown that the formation of p-TA under these conditions depends on the period of the micro-discharge effect on the system, it is maximal at exposition of 30 s for I = 4.2 mA.
(15) Peculiarities of aggregation in the samples of high density serum lipoproteins LHD2 and LHD3 obtained from healthy donors and patients with ishaemic heart disease were studied under isothermal exposition.
(16) However, transanal exposition bears the risk of worsening the incontinence.
(17) Moreover, exposition to simultaneous hypoxia and hypercapnia increased the epinephrine stock of the adrenal glands.
(18) Those effects depend on time of cell exposition to this compound.
(19) Such a reaction may also be expected during a natural exposition to pollens.
(20) The technique of collection was the usual one with the exposition of the Petri dishes containing Sabouraud Agar distributed 72 hours before.
Preposition
Definition:
(n.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running.
(n.) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Like" is a preposition, said the accusers, and may take only a noun phrase object, as in "crazy like a fox" or "like a bat out of hell".
(2) The increased sensitivity of the gpELISA over the VAR ELISA is reflected in the greater seroconversion rate and prepositive rate specificity.
(3) He omitted 43% of articles, 40% of complementizers, 20% of pronouns, 27% of semantically marked prepositions, 43% of purely grammatic prepositions, and 22% of auxiliary verbs, but his average sentence length was 9.8 words and 64% of his sentences contained embedded clauses.
(4) Articles, prepositions and conjunctions showed a similar use with that of the normals.
(5) No relationships between age and these measures were found, except for an increase in the use of prepositional phrases and indefinite words and longer pauses among older persons.
(6) Prepositions whose meanings can be described in terms of simple topological notions are understood and used with greater facility than those involving dimensional or Euclidean spatial notions.
(7) Our suggestion follows the linguistic analysis of the closed-class elements that convey spatial relations, the prepositions (Talmy, 1983).
(8) Techniques depend on mechanical analysis of sentence length, multiple prepositional phrases, direct phraseology, and arrangement of printed materials on the page.
(9) The degress of transfer, which was larger than in previously reported studies, was attributed to the instructional procedures requiring active production of prepositional mediators, coupled with an emphasis on their value.
(10) Moderately retarded children were instructed to produce prepositional mediatros by physically manipulating PA objects in learning three nine-term PA lists.
(11) The problem with stranding a preposition is that it can end the sentence with a word that is too lightweight to serve as its focal point, making the sentence sound like "the last sputter of an engine going dead".
(12) Three experimental variables were investigated: (a) the temporal sequence of information in the instructions, comparing instructions with preposition versus the ordinary postoposition of noun; (b) the spatial organization of the target objects, comparing an organization with color as the primary organizational factor to the ordinary organization primarily based on form; and (c) the specific timing of the presentation of instructions and tokens, comparing a successive presentation of instructions and tokens to the ordinary simultaneous presentation.
(13) The structure of language provides but a small set of prepositions to encode the vast number of spatial relations that we can perceive.
(14) The data point toward three common rules governing the two anti-Dex responses despite immunogenetic and antigenic disparities: (1) age dependency of the IgG isotype regulation of the response; (2) down-regulation of IgG isotype expression by T cells; and (3) individually determined preposition for IgG isotype formation in a given animal.
(15) "Your Portuguese is also missing a preposition," says Claudia C, who sounds like a member of Prince & The Revolution.
(16) Compared to the normal subjects, the dementia subjects used fewer total words, fewer unique words, fewer prepositional phrases, fewer subordinate clauses, and more incomplete sentence fragments.
(17) The prerequisites for normal gait are: (1) stability in the stance phase of gait, (2) clearance of the foot in the swing phase, (3) proper foot preposition in swing, and (4) an adequate step length.
(18) It was found that mediation subjects performed significantly better than control subjects on an unaided test list administered 2 weeks after training, regardless of distribution of training, degree of aid or number of prepositions provided during training sessions.
(19) This study has been born out the preposition of a working group of nurses and headnurses belonging to the Regional Sociopsychiatric Organization, who wanted to explore the reasons why several psychiatric and geriatric nurses left the Regional Neuropsychiatric Hospital over the years 1983-1988.
(20) The alternative to stranding a preposition at the end of a clause is allowing it to accompany a "wh" word to the front, a rule that the linguist JR (Haj) Ross dubbed pied-piping, because it reminded him of the way that the Pied Piper lured the rats out of the village of Hamelin.