(Superl.) Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.
(adv.) At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of them, extending farthest into the 5' and 3' direction respectively, were characterized by restriction mapping and Southern hybridization as well as by electron microscopic analysis of hybrids between the cloned DNA and ovomucoid mRNA.
(2) In the outer stripe only those proximal straight tubules (P3 segments) farthest from the vascular bundles were damaged.
(3) Dissection of the femoral nerve below the inguinal ligament and its branch(es) to an uninvolved area of the quadricepts the farthest from the location of the tumor is essential.
(4) First and farthest to spread was gas-light iodine 131, which tends to accumulate in the thyroid gland – it was quickly detected as far away as Tokyo.
(5) In the inner stripe only those thick ascending loops of Henle at the periphery of the vascular bundles escaped damage; all thick ascending loops of Henle lying farthest from the bundles were severely damaged.
(6) The interior of the molecule has extensive base-paired regions which connect distant regions of the molecule; the farthest being 2500 nucleotides apart.
(7) The farthest reaching proposals in more than a decade for the funding of long-term care for the elderly and disabled have met with a cautious government response , amid fears in Whitehall over the £1.7bn cost of the scheme.
(8) Visual fatigue was determined by the changes of visuognosis persistent time, nearest and farthest point in nearvision, and accommodation from before to after classes.
(9) These intermediates accumulated during excision of RNA primers in the presence of adenine 9-beta-D-arabinoside 5'-triphosphate, and those Okazaki fragments blocked by RNA primers (class III) were found to have originated the farthest from the 5' ends of long nascent DNA strands.
(10) It was assumed that items that maximally instantiated the rule were those farthest from the category boundary that separated small and large stimuli.
(11) In fact, observations established that older pedestrians were the safest age group, standing the farthest away from traffic.
(12) The compressive method was practiced instinctively in farthest antiquity.
(13) The general law of local regulation of the circulation and the "law of behaviour" of vascular smooth muscle are proposed on the basis of precise definition of hierarchically interrelated aims of the circulation: 1) stabilization of substances and heat fluxes through the tissue, 2) stabilization of the tissue environment at farthest points from the supplying vessels, and 3) minimization of circulating blood volume.
(14) The various experimental conditions incorporated binaural and monaural listening with the latter utilizing the ear nearest or ear farthest from the sound source.
(15) Muscles located farthest from the spine also played an important role as the trunk became more asymmetric.
(16) Nodes nearest to tumor showed least reaction; nodes at intermediate distances from tumor were most reactive, while those farthest away showed mostly little reaction.
(17) Le Guin won a national book award for The Farthest Shore in 1973, and on Wednesday reflected on the industry, which has undergone profound change in the more than four decades between these literary achievements.
(18) Similarly, the human gamma-globin gene is silenced earlier when present farthest from the LCR.
(19) This week, 40 years after the third Earthsea book, The Farthest Shore , won the National Book award in children’s literature, Le Guin has been awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, presented to her by Neil Gaiman in New York.
(20) With a mean of 6.9 mm, the apices of the mesial roots of the first molars were farthest from the canal.
Furthest
Definition:
(a.) superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a.
(adv.) At the greatest distance; farthest.
Example Sentences:
(1) This included estimation of the furthest distance that the cooling fluid, using coloured water, and the bone chips of a dry petrous temporal bone can be thrown, and the spread of the fine dust produced by the drilling using a staph.
(2) However, when dividing the island's territory in three areas (north, centre and south), and assessing independently their respective seroprevalences, we observed relatively higher seroprevalences in the furthest areas (13.3% in the north and 13.5% in the south) than in the central area (4.7%), although only the higher seroprevalence in the south reached statistical significance when compared with the mean prevalence.
(3) But these have come with their own problems: despite the improvements in individual living conditions, there is a growing realisation that the RDP housing programme has reinforced apartheid era segregation, continuing to consign the poor to ghettos at the furthest edges of the city.
(4) It's based around the idea of concentricity, and if you open the book right in the physical middle, you should find the section of the narrative that goes furthest back in time, and the image of somebody repetitively throwing stones into water … Plus, UoW gave birth to the Culture.
(5) They mark the furthest point of Isis influence from the group’s stronghold in eastern Syria.
(6) It’s the furthest from the male macho look you could get.
(7) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
(8) It is the second stop for a series of dispatches by the Guardian about the lives of those trying to do more than survive in places that seem furthest from the American Dream.
(9) in the part of the periaqueductal grey matter situated furthest from the cerebral aqueduct, where 30% of the cells contain nuclear inclusions.
(10) It says: "The Work Programme, while delivering acceptable results for the mainstream job seekers, is letting down those furthest from the labour market.
(11) Freezing in TES-Tris-citrate-I also resulted in spermatozoa that penetrated the furthest distance through cervical mucus and possessed the highest percent live spermatozoa when compared to other cryoprotective media.
(12) Shortly after midnight on Sunday, at least five gunmen arrived at the beach by speedboat and stormed the couple's palm-thatched hut, thought to be the furthest from the hotel's reception.
(13) Transcription initiating at the site furthest upstream is greatly increased when the LB400 cells are grown on biphenyl as the sole carbon source.
(14) This class of antifungal agents is represented by the marketed drug ketoconazole (Nizoral) and the experimental triazoles furthest along in clinical trials in the United States, itraconazole and fluconazole.
(15) India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Bangladesh were also included in the top 10 falling furthest behind.
(16) He was the furthest flung delegate to a meeting dominated by North Eastern delegates, as the organization that would in short order found the US Open Cup was born.
(17) The furthest Manuel Pellegrini pushed it was when he pointed out afterwards that he still thought Chelsea's success here 12 days earlier had been overplayed.
(18) Antibodies to 7-methylguanosine bound 40 S subunits at a single site, at or slightly above the division between the upper and lower segments of the particle and on the surface furthest from the platform (or large lobe) of the subunit.
(19) It has been found that fiber order perpendicular to the pial surface represents the sequence of axon arrivals in the optic tract, the fibers furthest from the pia being the oldest.
(20) Policies are drafted by think-tankers, leaked to the papers and expounded on the Today programme even before trickling down to the furthest reaches of the cabinet.