(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).
Fix
Definition:
(v. t.) To transfix; to pierce.
(a.) Fixed; solidified.
(v. t.) To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.
(v. t.) To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
(v. t.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.
(v. t.) To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.
(v. t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
(v. i.) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
(v. i.) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
(n.) A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
(n.) fettling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(2) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
(3) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(4) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(5) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(6) At a fixed concentration of nucleotide the effectiveness of elution was proportional to the charge on the eluting molecule.
(7) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
(8) Using an antibody to the nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR), we examined dendritic reticulum cells (DRCs) immunohistochemically in 62 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded lymph nodes from patients with reactive follicular hyperplasia or with various types of lymphoma.
(9) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(10) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
(11) Using a monoclonal antibody against dopamine and a rabbit antiserum against serotonin, 5-methoxytryptamine or tryptamine, we were able to achieve the simultaneous localization of two amines in glutaraldehyde-fixed sections of rat dorsal raphe nuclei.
(12) In one series of experiments, the animals were not treated before the tissues were conventionally fixed; in another, anesthetized animals were administered horseradish peroxidase 20 min before the tissues were fixed.
(13) Since all human cadaveric tissue is fixed whilst on the skeleton, we may assume that shrinkage of the muscles in such specimens is negligible.
(14) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
(15) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
(16) In contrast, in paraffin as well as in frozen sections of chick oviduct, fixed by immersion or in vapor, PR was exclusively nuclear, including in the absence of progesterone, and the intensity of immunostaining was not modified by progesterone treatment.
(17) Filipin-induced lesions in glutaraldehyde-fixed parasites indicated higher levels of beta-hydroxysterols in the amastigote than in the promastigote plasma membrane, and in the promastigote flagellar membrane than in the body membrane.
(18) Using a silver staining technique (AgNOR technique), we have investigated the nucleolar organizer-associated proteins (NORs) in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded conjunctival specimens of 15 intraepithelial squamous carcinomas, 10 hyperplastic-dysplastic samples and 10 control epithelial fragments; the mean number of intranuclear black dots was determined for each case.
(19) Radiologists may encounter patients with fixed dental prostheses that may produce image distortion on MRI scans of the face and jaw.
(20) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.