(a.) Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pathomechanism, how C. pylori facilitates the development of peptic ulcer is since hypothetical.
(2) The model is based on the concept that a cell with hypothetically unlimited replicative potential--i.e.
(3) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(4) The possible roles of the sorbitol pathway and of hypothetical regulatory sites for the glucose molecule ("receptors") are briefly discussed.
(5) By analysis of the three sequences we were able to delineate a hypothetic model for region X domain evolution and discussed the origin of genetic variability within and without strains.
(6) For now, it is a hypothetical danger and England cannot be doing too badly if the worst controversy about Hodgson's squad is who goes as reserve left-back.
(7) On the basis of these data, a hypothetical molecular mechanism of vestibular efferent modulation of the primary afferent pathway is proposed.
(8) A hypothetical scheme is presented that pursues the processes involved in invasion from the biochemical events generated by attachment of the parasite, to the steric rearrangement of red cell membrane proteins, which culminates in invasion.
(9) Samples taken by Monte Carlo means from a hypothetical in vitro population were compared with clonal survival data obtained experimentally.
(10) A hypothetical model is proposed in which prevention of ulcer formation or accelerated healing of ulcers by conventional therapies may be FGF dependent.
(11) In Experiment 1, subjects exposed to a sound representing their heartbeat made greater self-attributions for hypothetical outcomes than did subjects exposed to the same sound identified as an extraneous noise.
(12) The hypothetical pattern is regenerative and shows how epithelial cell patterns where cells divide might arise.
(13) First-year student nurses attributed less pain to the hypothetical patient than third- and fourth-year student nurses and registered nurses.
(14) Problems which have arisen and considerations on the hypothetic future interventions are considered.
(15) The authors surveyed primary care physicians in Missouri to determine the presence and extent of standards of care for 12 hypothetical cases.
(16) A hypothetical view of the relationship between these cell types is presented.
(17) In assessing the autoradiographs, two methods were compared, the circle analysis and the recently described hypothetical grain analysis.
(18) Hypothetically a blockade of the surface of T-lymphocytes by products of the immediate reaction, for example immune complexes, is suggested.
(19) The loss of threshold showed a large inter-individual variability, with a rapid increase above a hypothetic threshold dose.
(20) From the data obtained a hypothetical sequence of phosphorylation and 18O-exchange reactions in myofibril action has been suggested.
Scenario
Definition:
(n.) A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.
Example Sentences:
(1) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(2) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(3) According to the International Energy Agency, 147m Indians will remain without electricity into 2030 under a business as usual scenario emphasising coal.
(4) In the lowest prevalence scenario (0.02 initial prevalence), initiation of the program resulted in a projected savings of 2.3 life years per HIV-negative drug user, compared with 1.7 and 1.3 years under medium (0.25) and high (0.60) prevalence, respectively.
(5) They anticipated the following scenario: a struggling club fires its manager and enjoys an immediate upsurge.
(6) Even under the most optimistic scenarios, shale gas is projected to meet just 10% of European gas demand by 2030.
(7) The best scenario used in the new YATR strip each Sunday wins a shirt to the value of £50 from Kitbag .
(8) Each of the scenarios is divided into graded challenges.
(9) While they might technically have been denied a majority in that scenario, making up the two missing seats would have been trivial.
(10) This is the doomsday scenario, but according to a leaked report of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation – a team of university professors, lawyers and journalists who spent six months investigating Japan's response to the triple meltdown at the plant – it could all too easily have happened.
(11) But it is easier to foresee scenarios in which Italian growth and inflation are even weaker than now projected, and debt ratios keep rising.
(12) In any scenario, I can give an absolute guarantee that average pay for juniors will not reduce.” All you need to know about '#thehunteffect' Read more On working hours, Hunt wrote: “I can give an absolute guarantee to junior doctors that this contract will not impose longer hours.
(13) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
(14) The testing found that ATEbank would have a Tier 1 capital ratio of 4.36% under the most adverse scenario, leaving it short of €242.6m.
(15) Could I see a scenario if he was PM and he asked me to do something?
(16) Under one scenario, a caretaker prime minister would take over until the next national election.
(17) An additional effect of the scenario is a considerable saving in total expenses for dental health care.
(18) Should we worry about the SF scenario – that a network of computers could develop a mind of its own and threaten us all?
(19) Six scenarios for human exposure were examined, based primarily on measured air and water concentrations of total hydrocarbons, benzene, xylenes, and toluene.
(20) The worst possible scenario, the report said, would be a 10-minute release of ammonia gas that would kill or injure no one.