(n.) One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Spinal Pedicle Finder (S.P.F) has been designed for transpedicular screws and a prototype has been completed.
(2) The Cytoscan 110 metaphase finder has been tested with cultures of human peripheral blood lymphocytes prior to its introduction into routine use for the analysis of radiation-induced chromosomal damage.
(3) The technique uses a finder needle and a saline-filled syringe to locate the small and poorly defined trachea.
(4) Now some agents are taking the process a step further with "sale by informal tender" contracts for buyers who make sealed bids – the contracts commit the successful buyer to paying an introductory or finder's fee to the agent, usually around 2-2.5% of the cost of the property.
(5) Their antennae, which purported to detect explosives, and in other cases narcotics, were not connected to anything, they had no power source and one of the devices was simply the golf ball finder with a different sticker on it.
(6) • S Finder is the phone's search engine, to find chat messages, documents or other content on the phone.
(7) Subjectivity in selecting random grid squares for routine quantitative analysis can be circumvented through a combination of finder grids and a computer program.
(8) However, it is also possible that flock formation is neutral or even beneficial to the individual members, including the bird that found the fish (the 'first finder').
(9) Jonathan Hopper, the managing director of buying agents Garrington Property Finders, said the brisk pace in June was likely to be the high water mark for the property market for some time.
(10) This has information on different sources of funding and a "Finance Finder" tool to see which schemes you might qualify for.
(11) Two cones could only be bypassed by the Canal-Finder-System but were not removed with any of the techniques investigated in this study.
(12) Ralph: Well, I've been working on my profile on Adult Friend Finder.
(13) The need for radiologic control during surgery is emphasized although, as demonstrated in the present review, the technique of localization by a cath-finder (external detector) permits greater speed with the same security.
(14) The magazine's editorial director, Henry Finder, says drily that Remnick 'has something very scarce in this city: an aura of sanity.
(15) "This decision makes it clear that the rule of finders keepers is not the law in New York."
(16) Faulks, who is married to former Conservative justice minister Edward Faulks, claimed the protesters were not people affected by the disaster, adding: “The people that stormed the council weren’t the local community, they’re people who like doing that sort of thing and I think they did a disservice to the local community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grenfell Tower protesters storm Kensington town hall – video report Faulks also works as a “property finder” for Vivien Thompson Property Search, which looks for properties to buy for customers who do not have time to search.
(17) Daily Mail & General Trust has acquired a 50% stake in Globrix , the property finder search engine, months after News International sold its half share in the operation back to the founders .
(18) Future space telescopes, such as Nasa's proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder , have been designed to confirm whether alien worlds are suitable for life.
(19) The 60-year-old married father of two from Langport, Somerset, is serving 10 years in jail following a scam that included the sale of £55m-worth of devices based on a novelty golf ball finder to Iraq, Niger, Syria, Mexico and other countries including Lebanon where a United Nations agency was a client.
(20) Of the remaining 39 cones, 19 were removed after using the Canal-Finder-System.
Hinder
Definition:
(a.) Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.
(a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.
(a.) To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.
(v. i.) To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The blocking action may have masked and hindered detection of the stimulatory action of barium in other systems.
(2) Diffusional anisotropy of water protons, induced by nonrandom, directional barriers which hinder or retard water motion, is measurable by MRI.
(3) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
(4) Mapping of susceptibility is hindered by the limitations of conventional tissue typing techniques, and by strong linkage disequilibrium within this part of the genome.
(5) From these results, we presume that light induces a protein that hinders the interaction of gp70 in HM1 cells with its receptor on the NC4 cell surface and thereby inhibits the sexual process between these strains.
(6) This in vivo incorporation of tungsten was competitively hindered by molybdenum.
(7) If a prisoner is in the process of taking a programme this can hinder or even curtail their progress – many prisons don't offer certain programmes so if you are moved to a prison without a particular course you are back to square one when it comes to the crucial Parole Board assessment.
(8) From the outset the former Leicester University economics professor has made no secret of the fact this his “dysfunctional relationship” with Anastasiades and other central Bank board members had hindered his role in the post.
(9) The inhibition of Na+K+ ATPase and Mg2+ ATPase activity which may affect the release and uptake of biogenic amines in CNS, hinders the maturation of human fetal brain.
(10) The identification of patients usually refractory to outpatient treatment was hindered by the constant flux in the population base as illustrated by an 85% increase in the asthma registry over the succeeding 12-mo period.
(11) OKT4 and OKT8 monoclonal antibodies slightly hindered depolarization by CsA while OKT3, OKT11 and OKIa1 antibodies had no such effect.
(12) The Communist party and the liberal Yabloko party complained on Sunday of extensive election violations aimed at boosting United Russia's vote count, including party observers being hindered in their work.
(13) These data indicate that the basic model presented here provides a suitable vehicle for future studies into the biochemical events that may cause skeletal muscle enlargement during resistance training but, based on limited data, suggests that an increased frequency of training days may hinder muscle enlargement in this model.
(14) If this geometry was changed, a decrease in affinity was observed and if the ligand binding was sterically hindered, a spectral shift to a five-coordinated complex absorbing at 390 nm occurred.
(15) Administrative inefficiency hinders even more the appropriate utilization of resources.
(16) Thus, the product of natural processing of equine myoglobin probably has hindering structures in the regions flanking the core epitope 102-118 that interfere with presentation by I-Ak but not I-AS.
(17) Many tropical diseases cause disability and hinder the socio-economic development of the Third World countries where they rage.
(18) The difficulties encountered in casting titanium and its alloys have until recently hindered any widespread use of titanium in restorative dentistry.
(19) Warming water will make it hard for many of the reef’s corals to survive, while the acidification of the oceans will hinder the ability of remaining corals to form their skeletons.
(20) The 3-nitrocatechol-structure of nitecapone seems to hinder nitro-reduction, catechol-O-methylation, and sulfation reactions.