(n.) A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.
Example Sentences:
(1) The benefit of focal and grid-laser photocoagulation in reducing the risk of visual loss from diabetic macular edema has been established.
(2) The area of mammographically visualized breast tissue before and after augmentation mammoplasty was measured using a transparent grid.
(3) Some of the parallel fibers, which display presynaptic vesicular grids, established synaptic contact with stellate cells and the dendritic spines of the few Purkinje cells that survived the treatment.
(4) Xenophon’s letter says if State Grid is also allowed to own a huge stake in Ausgrid it raises serious questions about market dominance.
(5) Quantitative cell types were determined by a grid intersection counting technique at x 1000.
(6) The simple BASIC program described in this paper generates a list of random grid-square numbers, which are sequentially analyzed.
(7) Grid reference: 54.5763, -2.8734 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Lower Ddwli Falls, Waterfall Woods, Brecon Beacons In the south-west hills of the Brecon Beacons , near Ystradfellte, you'll find some of the most amazing waterfall plunge pools in Britain.
(8) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
(9) In the international categories, a Nicaraguan company won the energy enterprise award for installing more than 400 kilowatt peak (kWp) of solar photovoltaic energy, often in rural areas without a national grid connection.
(10) Possibilities of differentiation between the two populations of lymphocytes are furthermore obtained by the grid electron microscopy and the important functional tests of the transformation of lymphocytes by means of unspecific and specific stimulants.
(11) Examinations of 202 patients (337 eyes) with different forms of macular dystrophies, such as idiopathic flat detachment of the retina in the macular area, central sclerotic dystrophy of the retina, tapetoretinal macular degeneration, outcome of local inflammation of pigmented epithelium, post-traumatic central chorioretinitis, etc., allowed to receive data confirming high information value of a method based on the phenomenon of dynamic scotoma of disadaptation as compared with examinations on the Amsler's grid and campimetry.
(12) Detailed analysis of microsphere distribution in a cubic centimeter of normal liver and the calculation of dose to a 3-dimensional fine grid has shown that the radiation distribution created by the finite size and distribution of the microspheres results in an highly heterogeneous dose pattern.
(13) The grids are then placed in an easy-to-make plastic chamber so that the formvar does not get ruptured during drying.
(14) The MPB device showed better SNRs by a factor of 1.25 compared to the grid and air gap which were approximately equal to each other.
(15) The Grid confirmed on Friday morning that it had secured the 45 gigawatts (GW) of back-up power generation it wants to meet peak periods of electricity demand starting in 2019.
(16) The positive and negative conditioned stimuli were tones of different frequency, and the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) was shock delivered through the grid floor of a rotating-wheel conditioning apparatus.
(17) In this study, RBCs from bluetongue (BLU) virus-infected sheep were adsorbed directly onto Formvar-coated, gold electron microscope grids.
(18) A dermoviability index was calculated for each grid.
(19) China committed for the first time to stop emissions from growing by 2030 and to get 20% of its power from non-fossil fuel sources – about the equivalent of two-thirds of the entire US electrical grid.
(20) The grid was then stained with a small drop of phosphotungstate and observed electron microscopically.
Grit
Definition:
(n.) Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
(n.) The coarse part of meal.
(n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.
(n.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.
(n.) Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.
(n.) Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.
(v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
(v. t.) To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in sewage wastes at a municipal sewage treatment plant was studied, showing that the great bulk of PCBs entering such a treatment plant become adsorbed onto the grit chamber solids and the sludge that is passed from the anaerobic digesters.
(2) We suggest that other functions than grinding, such as supplying minerals, may be equally important functions of the grit.
(3) A lesser amount of toxin was produced on rice, but none was detected in wheat incubated at 20 C. The amount of toxin measured in white corn grits declined as the incubation temperature was raised to 20, 25, and 32 C.
(4) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
(5) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
(6) The effect of different modes of the hydrothermal treatment of buckwheat and of the grit cooking on a change in the composition of sterols and phospholipids was investigated.
(7) Chrysler aired a commercial during the Super Bowl declaring its cars were “imported from Detroit,” playing upon the city’s grit and determination to sell cars we barely made.
(8) She shares her conflicted instincts, the personal frustration, the gritted teeth effort to stay afloat when the team was coming apart ... a declaration a lot of women will recognise: “I felt I could hold things together.” The eventual decision that the show could no longer stay afloat.
(9) Days when the only thing to do is to grit one’s teeth and force oneself to think different thoughts.
(10) The diamond fraise is a more exacting instrument and with the recent introduction of the extra-coarse grit diamond fraise, the instrument is as abrasive as the standard wire brush.
(11) For me, Kitson is at his best when ( as the New York Times said of It's Always Right Now) "he seasons the treacle with grit".
(12) There is still a grit to the brand but it’s been refined, in a natural kind of a way, because now I’m 31, not 21, so there are things I didn’t like before that I like now; things I liked before and now want a better version of.
(13) Sixteen cured samples of each were initially finished with 600-grit paper and then abraded by medium-grit wheels for 30,000 cycles.
(14) We're told that Cameron wanted to create a highly political Thatcher-style policy unit to provide intellectual grit and better communication.
(15) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(16) Immediately before being bonded, the amalgam surfaces were finished flat on 600-grit paper.
(17) As burly security men hung back and the promoters sat silently by, Chisora marched on Haye, who gritted his teeth, held on to what those close to him say was a bottle of Desperados, a pale German lager tinged with tequila, and threw an inspired right hand that cracked into the side of Chisora's jaw.
(18) Data are presented for three different grades (400, 500 and 600 grit) of commercially available emory paper and three samples of osteoarthritic femoral head articular cartilage, which were visually assessed as having smooth, intermediate and rough surfaces, respectively.
(19) Set in recession-hit small town America, Gone Girl is a mystery of grit and steel.
(20) It takes grit and it takes grace.” Placing Clinton in a lineage of great American women from Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart to Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt, she told the delegates: “You people have made history and you’re gonna make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president … she’ll be the first but she won’t be the last.” Lena Dunham, creator and star of the HBO series Girls, led a series of celebrity endorsements that joined the dots between Clinton’s breaking of glass ceilings and Trump’s dismissive comments about women.