(a.) Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
(a.) Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
(a.) Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
(a.) Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
(a.) Imaginary.
(n.) A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
(4) As bacterial vaginosis is generally looked upon as a mild noninflammatory condition lactate-gel seems to be an ideal treatment for this disease.
(5) Using four 4 cm electrodes at intervals of 1.5 cm in VX-2 carcinoma in the rabbit, ideal heating was obtained: 42 degrees C at the periphery of the tumor and 43 degrees C at the center.
(6) The regimen used at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, provides 2.0 to 2.5 gm protein per kilogram ideal body weight, plus adequate fluid and nutrient supplements.
(7) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(8) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(9) From a practical viewpoint, this approach to prevention is less than ideal because it results in considerable costs as health care providers monitor for possible hepatotoxic effects and because it is difficult to maintain compliance for 12 months.
(10) Ideally, the rule should classify all nonhyperplastic and mildly hyperplastic cases as nonprogressive and all carcinomas as progressive; there were, however, a considerable number of false positives and false negatives based on application of the classification rule to these cases.
(11) Whether we would use that to support and amplify the community ideals already present or go the way of gentrification remained to be seen.
(12) Gallium arsenide has proved to be an ideal substrate material for some uses but is associated with unique health hazards.
(13) The ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by the following formula: ideal body mass index x the height (m)2, since body mass index is expressed by the body weight in kilogram divided by the height squared in meters.
(14) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(15) Therefore, it is an ideal method for the isolation of cell cycle phase specific populations.
(16) Without suggesting an ideal medication for this syndrome, the authors have obtained good results with barbexaclone.
(17) Actions achieved or a long commitment to an ideal, often through hardship.
(18) The integrated sensing system is an ideal instrumental set up for viewing and recording the behaviour of rodents as well as other animals in the experimental pen throughout the year under varying weather and light conditions.
(19) This experiment investigated people's preferences for the location of facilities in an ideal town.
(20) Need Score for each content area was calculated by taking the difference between Ideal and Current Expertise responses.
Infinity
Definition:
(n.) Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.
(n.) Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections.
(n.) Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties.
(n.) A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind.
(n.) That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple doses of cholestyramine significantly altered HCTZ kinetics, including reductions in Ae(0-24) by 35% (P less than 0.02), AUC(0-infinity) by 32% (P less than 0.01), and Cmax by 31% (P less than 0.01).
(2) The Infinity towel comes in colours more vibrant than one might expect from an eco-friendly product, including coral, green, blue and violet.
(3) In the interim, Gough had also played a devious old friend of the Doctor – by now, Peter Davison – in the 1983 story Arc of Infinity.
(4) The rate constants and steady-state values for m were in agreement with the Hodgkin-Huxley equations except that the experimental relationship of m(infinity) (3) against V was shifted 10-15 mV in the negative direction.
(5) 115 mM-TEA reduced the amplitude of [I(m)(0) - I(m)(infinity)] by about 85%.3.
(6) Some spoke of access to on-site rooftop infinity swimming pools and top of the range company cars.
(7) The final expression is mathematically accurate to 1% and is valid for image radii ranging from 20 to 500 mum and for exposure times from 30 ms to infinity.
(8) The data from the other 15 subjects showed small differences, which did not achieve statistical significance between the formulations with respect to Cmax, Tpeak and AUC0-infinity.
(9) We introduce the following functions of alpha m and beta m. (sequence in text) where VH, td and tau p stand for holding potential, constant delay time of 10 microseconds, and transit time of the transition velocity of alpha m (or beta m) from its initial value alpha om (or beta om) to its final steady value alpha infinity m (or beta infinity m), respectively.
(10) A second technician was arranged and claimed that BT often sells Infinity 2 for lines that can’t support the guaranteed speed.
(11) In adult myocytes, when EGTA (10 or 20 mM) or bis(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (BAPTA, 10 mM) were included in the pipette solution, contractions were rapidly abolished, while a small (4 mV) shift of f infinity to more positive potentials was seen.
(12) By contrast, BT signed up 400,000 subscribers to its fibre product, Infinity, with 95,000 added in the last quarter.
(13) In the time-dependent transfer of a lipid from a donor to an acceptor vesicle population a(t) is the amount transferred to the acceptor vesicles at time t, a infinity is the equilibrium transfer value and a0 is the value at zero time.
(14) In the last quarter, 131,000 signed up for the BT Infinity fibre-to-the-cabinet product, which offers speeds of up to 76mbps and is being priced on a par with the fastest copper lines, meaning BT now has more than half a million fibre customers.
(15) We’re focusing on that right now with Infinity War while we’re breaking into those movies, [to see] which characters we can pull to the forefront who potentially haven’t had their own ‘A’ story arc to this point.
(16) After pulsed excitation with a polarized light, the fluorescence anisotropy ratio of DPH in membranes rapidly decreased and gave a final value (r infinity).
(17) The area under the plasma concentration-time curve from t = 0 to infinity (AUC infinity) of S(-)-mepivacaine was almost double that of R(+)-mepivacaine.
(18) From the results of intravenous injections one can deduce linear ibuprofen pharmacokinetics within the considered dosage range, with corresponding AUC0-infinity values of 3786 micrograms * min ml-1 and 7260 micrograms * min ml-1 for the 200 mg and 400 mg doses, respectively.
(19) The voltage dependence of the use-dependent block produced by cocaine isomers did not overlap with the activation of Na+ channels but did overlap with the steady-state inactivation (h infinity), indicating that cocaine can bind directly to the inactivated state of Na+ channels before channel opening.
(20) Following administration of 1000 mg MPA the areas under the plasma concentration-time curves (AUC 0-infinity) were calculated to (mean and S.E.