(n.) A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.
(n.) A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
(n.) A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.
(n.) A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method involves saturating all spins outside a plane, selectively exciting individual lines, phase encoding along each line, sampling the FID without gradients, and interleaving interrogation of multiple lines.
(2) The rate of longitudinal relaxation was measured by studying the FID after pairs of pulses of approximately 90 degrees.
(3) Twenty-two patients were examined with both FID-CT and 123I-SPECT.
(4) The detection of the insecticides was performed using a wide bore capillary gas chromatograph (GC) with flame ionization detection (FID).
(5) It is shown that one can obtain an expression for the FID signal induced by all resonating particles at any particular point in the imaged object.
(6) 19F free induction decay (FID) signals have been observed from the index fingers of four male and two female adult volunteers using a 27-MHz pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer equipped with a split ring resonator probe.
(7) The TLC-FID method was found to be better than the colorimetric method in terms of simplicity and accuracy in the determination of SDS in hydrophilic ointments.
(8) For positive extracts 5-methoxypsoralene is analysed quantitatively by capillary gas chromatography, using 5-alpha-cholestane as an internal standard and flame ionization detection (FID).
(9) To examine the relation of 1,2-DAG in heart tissues to cardiac hypertrophy associated with hypertension, we measured the amount of 1,2-DAG in spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) hearts at 4, 10 and 20 weeks of age, and in age-matched normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat hearts using thin-layer chromatography with flame ionization detection (TLC-FID).
(10) On-line coupled liquid chromatography-gas chromatography-flame ionisation detection (LC-GC-FID) enables efficient and unambiguous determination of irradiation for some fat-containing foods (e.g.
(11) Thin-layer chromatography with flame ionization detection (TLC-FID) was compared with colorimetric and HPLC methods for measuring sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), an anionic surfactant, in hydrophilic ointments prepared according to the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, the United States Pharmacopoeia and British Pharmacopoeia.
(12) The activity of sparteine oxidase was assessed by the formation of 2- and 5-dehydrosparteines, which were estimated by capillary gas chromatography with N2-FID detection.
(13) When this residual phase coherency is utilized in conjunction with the fast SSFP (steady-state free precession) technique, both the FID and the echo signals can be obtained.
(14) All 18 components were stable for a two-week period; however, an interference caused a 10-fold increase in the FID response of trichloroethylene, toluene, and chlorobenzene.
(15) The collecting medium (helium) is continuously monitored by a flame ionization detector (FID) of a gas chromatograph (GC).
(16) GC analysis on an SE 30 packed column and FID was applied; relative retention times of the onion extract components were measured and matched with authentic prostaglandin samples using cholesterol as an internal standard.
(17) Since fluoride impurities accumulate almost exclusively in bone mineral, the 19F resonance signal is broadened by rigid lattice magnetic dipole-dipole interactions, causing the FID signal to have a relatively short lifetime of approximately 75 microseconds.
(18) The FIDs were obtained by two different heteronuclear correlation experiments, one that utilizes heteronuclear multiple-quantum coherence during t1, and one that utilizes 13C single-quantum coherence.
(19) RI calculations are highly reproducible with this technique (day-to-day variations range from 0.3 to 3.4 RI units) and are comparable to packed column, FID generated reference data.
(20) The urinary concentration of some solvents (acetone, cyclohexane, 1,2 dichloropropane, n-hexane, methyl ethyl ketone, perchloroethylene, styrene, toluene, 1,1,1, trichloroethane) was measured by means of a gas chromatography Hewlett-Packard 5890 supplied with a flame ionization detector (GC-FID, DANI HS 3950).
Fir
Definition:
(n.) A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus.
Example Sentences:
(1) A rater-specifuc varuabke was fiybd fir eacg if tge fiyr raters.
(2) Linear phase finite impulse response (FIR) filtering can be used to differentiate auditory brainstem evoked potentials (ABEP) components.
(3) Pieces of Douglas fir and polyvinyl chloride were colonized in a recirculating system and the comparative efficacy of two biocides (Bronopol and Kathon) against the sessile and planktonic populations was examined.
(4) A method is described for the isolation of DNA from spruce and fir, starting with 3 to 5 apices (5 mg material).
(5) The colonies of migrating monarch butterflies that spend the winter in a patch of fir forest in central Mexico were dramatically smaller this season than they have been since monitoring began 20 years ago, according to the annual census of the insects released this week.
(6) The channel will also air highlights from the traditional New Year's Day concert from Vienna, a three-part documentary about the city now known as Istanbul with Simon Sebag Montefiore, and the Fir Tree, a Danish film following the life of a Christmas tree, from the perspective of the tree.
(7) Cardiopulmonary parameters were studied in awake, instrumented goats following spontaneous inhalation of characterized Douglas fir smoke.
(8) An optimal correction of a conventional finite impulse response (FIR) filter is achieved by using a priori knowledge of noise variance and a continuous estimation of the error signal's power.
(9) In 4 series of experiments a dependence between 3,4-benzpyrene (BP) output and the temperature of fir sawdust pyrolysis under isothermic conditions has been investigated.
(10) A s the air cools in a fir-lined valley east of Croatia's Velebit mountains, the bears of Kuterevo stir to life in the gloaming.
(11) Recent literature has suggested that total intrauterine volume (TIUV) estimation is useful fir distinguishing normal from growth-retarded fetuses.
(12) Deletion mutant (IG-FIR delta 22) (amino acid 944-965) did not transduce the IGF-I signal to the GH gene.
(13) First, the eye-movement signal is smoothed using a predictive finite-impulse response (FIR), median hybrid filter.
(14) They were Douglas fir, wool, and polyvinyl chloride.
(15) The major wound-inducible monoterpene synthase (cyclase) of grand fir (Abies grandis) stems transforms geranyl pyrophosphate to both (-)-alpha-pinene (40%) and (-)-beta-pinene (60%).
(16) Rapidly conducting fibres are the firs ones to cease activity (fig.
(17) Douglas-fir possesses a major inversion of 40-50 kilobases relative to radiata pine and nonconiferous plants.
(18) The funds, which include New York-based Fir Tree Partners, Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Aurelius Capital, are known as the Ad Hoc Group of Puerto Rico and hold $5.2bn of Puerto Rico bonds.
(19) Therefore, the fast insulin release (FIR) to intravenously administered glucose was measured in 23 adult CF patients.
(20) In 11 of the 18 normoglycemic patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and the 3 nontreated diabetic CF patients studied, an FIR value lower than the 3rd percentile was found.