(n.) The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.
(n.) The marks on an instrument or vessel to indicate degrees or quantity; a scale.
(n.) The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.
Example Sentences:
(1) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(2) We are also running our graduate internship scheme this summer.
(3) Controversy exists regarding immunization with pertussis vaccine of high-risk special care nursery graduates.
(4) Approximately half the foreign graduates born in the United States studied in Italy, and 10% in Switzerland, Mexico and Belgium.
(5) Labour's education spokesman, Ed Balls, said it was important to continue expanding the number of graduates.
(6) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
(7) In 1984, 286 male US graduates matched in pathology, but this number dropped to 150 in 1985 and 149 in 1986.
(8) The school, funded by a £75m gift from a US philanthropist, will train graduates from around the world in the "skills and responsibilities of government," the university said.
(9) 31 junior high students and seven university undergraduates who graduated from the same junior high school seven years before were asked to draw a layout of the school campus.
(10) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
(11) This conclusion is based on a misconception: that science graduates are limited to a career in science.
(12) That’s why many parents in North Korea have started bribing government officers even before their kids graduate high school.
(13) Also, when using these drugs, one must often follow a meticulously graduated dosage regimen, while carefully monitoring the patient for toxic and potentially lethal side effects.
(14) A graduate can earn £240,000 more than a non-maths graduate.
(15) A graduate education program in public health for American Indians was introduced in the fall of 1971 at the College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
(16) However, only the doctors who graduated from the two modern universities in Kuopio and Tampere were satisfied with their undergraduate health centre teaching.
(17) A questionnaire was administered to 57 UWI-trained medical graduates presently doing their internship in Jamaica.
(18) THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF EDUCATION FOR MEDICAL LIBRARY PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES CONSISTS OF FOUR MAJOR COMPONENTS: graduate degree programs in library science with specialization in medical librarianship; graduate degree programs in library science with no such specialization; postgraduate internships in medical libraries; continuing education programs.
(19) As a result of the clerkship's success, over 50 percent of the program's graduates actively practice in primary medical manpower shortage or medically underserved areas.
(20) (2) COME is third-grade medical education producing third-grade graduates and 'barefoot doctors'.
Vernier
Definition:
(n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first method consisted of using a vernier caliper by which direct measurements (Dv) of the distances were recorded.
(2) The tests are resistant to the effects of opacities because they utilize a localization task (vernier acuity) rather than a resolution task.
(3) We report that the ability to detect a small vernier offset (less than 5 sec of arc in many individuals) between two small spots of light separated by a narrow gap can be disrupted by presenting additional targets in close proximity to the vernier stimulus.
(4) This result implies that the human visual system processes vernier offsets in parallel.
(5) Vernier acuity and vernier bias were examined in persons aged 20 to 79 years using a method of adjustments.
(6) Previous experiments that have compared monocular vernier acuity in amblyopic, monocularly blind, and normal binocular subjects have been confined to the center of the retina.
(7) Sensitivity to sinusoidal curvature (periodic vernier acuity) was measured by the method of adjustment as a function of spatial frequency of the curvature.2.
(8) Almost all increases in thresholds with eccentricity were explained by the theory in five of these tasks, which included the two-dot vernier hyperacuity test, the measurement of visual acuities with gratings, the Snellen E test, and two acuity tests that required either separation between dots or discrimination between two mirror-symmetric forms.
(9) The previously reported contrast dependence of vernier acuity was confirmed, but contrast had a much smaller effect upon interval acuity.
(10) In the past 10 years much has been learned about the development of two hyperacuities, namely, vernier acuity and stereoacuity.
(11) The developmental function for vernier acuity is discussed in relation to physiologic development of the kitten visual system and is related to published data on the development of stereoacuity and spatial resolution in the same species.
(12) Although stereoacuity and vernier acuity both yield comparable thresholds well below the eye's resolution limit, the neural circuits for these two classes of visual responses do not process the signals in an identical manner.
(13) Near birth, grating acuity is relatively more mature than vernier acuity.
(14) All vernier results, both for better and amblyopic eye, were within one line of Snellen acuity.
(15) Neither the variation in retinal eccentricity nor changing the paradigm to a vernier acuity task altered the basic pattern of results.
(16) Subjects showed little improvement in OC vernier acuity, even after 50,000 trials.
(17) In a crossover comparison with standard Vernier-type calipers, the Tumorimeter was significantly more accurate than bidimensional caliper determinations (less than or equal to 5% surface area error vs a 21-28% overestimate error for calipers).
(18) Vernier thresholds for all spatial frequencies are related to contrast by a power law with exponents of approximately -0.8.
(19) The values obtained by image analysis and by measurement with vernier calliper are identical and similar to the data of the literature.
(20) Differences between OC and SC vernier acuities persisted over a wide range of interstimulus spacings, widths, and contrasts.