(n.) That which is made or produced as a copy; that which is made to resemble something else, whether for laudable or for fraudulent purposes; likeness; resemblance.
(n.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon.
(n.) The act of condition of imitating another species of animal, or a plant, or unanimate object. See Imitate, v. t., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
(2) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
(3) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
(4) Joints are originally created by the author as an imitation of TMJ and mandibular ramus.
(5) In Rhodotorula, peroxisomes are characterized by the same "bean" configuration and paired arrangement imitating "copulation" as mitocondria.
(6) When imitation examination was carried out using pontamine blue dye solution in 7 kinds of syringes for the use of cartridge, dye reflux was observed in all of them.
(7) The heterogeneity was imitated by parallel connection of two papillar muscles with different mechanical properties.
(8) Analysis of error patterns shows the least number of errors for the recognition task and greatest number for the spontaneous production task, with imitation holding the intermediate position (R less than I less than P).
(9) Neither of these tests was significantly correlated with an ideomotor apraxia test (imitation of movements).
(10) This chapter also reviews the social response to AA including early research on AA, the generally favorable response to AA, criticism of AA, and the widespread imitation of AA by other problem area groups.
(11) I think we’re finally at a place in culture where a character being gay or lesbian isn’t taboo, especially for teenagers – the target audience for a lot of these summer blockbusters,” says screenwriter Graham Moore, who won an Oscar for the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game .
(12) When imitative prompts and reinforcements were used to teach compound sentence structure, correct use of simple sentences declined and correct use of compound structure increased.
(13) A nonverbal boy, enrolled in a special education preschool, was taught to imitate reliably six words in 46 15-minute sessions.
(14) Tics are modified by multiple psychological contents (aggressive or sexual impulses, imitation of others) which tend to become independent of their origin.
(15) He learned many of the other crucial skills that were either lacking, or absent: the ability to point, and imitate; the habit of commenting on his surroundings; how to divert his energy away from tantrums into productive activity.
(16) In contrast to other studies, it was concluded that the sequential therapy does not imitate the usual endometrium alterations of a normal cycle.
(17) Sixteen autistic children with WISC Performance IQs of 70 or above were analyzed to determine their conceptions of spatial relations, size comparisons, and gesture imitations through the use of the WISC, an originally devised Language Decoding Test (LDT), and a modified Gesture Imitation Test (GIT).
(18) The effects of 8-Br cyclic AMP were not mimicked by cyclic AMP applied extracellularly but were imitated by intracellular injections of cyclic AMP.
(19) A previously unreported case of a synovial cyst of a temporo-mandibular joint imitating a parotid tumour is described.
(20) It could be imitated by caffeine and blocked by tetracaine and thus was, most likely, initiated by release of calcium.
Limitation
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.
(v. t.) That which limits; a restriction; a qualification; a restraining condition, defining circumstance, or qualifying conception; as, limitations of thought.
(v. t.) A certain precinct within which friars were allowed to beg, or exercise their functions; also, the time during which they were permitted to exercise their functions in such a district.
(v. t.) A limited time within or during which something is to be done.
(v. t.) A certain period limited by statute after which the claimant shall not enforce his claims by suit.
(v. t.) A settling of an estate or property by specific rules.
(v. t.) A restriction of power; as, a constitutional limitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serum levels of both dihydralazine and metabolites were very low and particularly below the detection limit.
(2) This should not be a serious limitation to the application of the RIA in the detection of venous thrombosis.
(3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(5) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(6) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(7) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(8) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.
(9) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
(10) Breast reconstruction should not be limited to the requiring patients, but should represent, in selected cases with favourable prognosis, an integrative and complementary procedure of the treatment.
(11) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
(12) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
(13) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
(14) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(15) Direct limiting effects of hypothermia on tissue O2 delivery and muscle oxidative metabolism as well as vasoconstriction and arteriovenous shunting associated with CPB procedures are likely to be involved in the above mentioned alterations of cell metabolism.
(16) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(17) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
(18) Immunochemical techniques, in particular ELISA are available for only a very limited number of NM (e.g.
(19) Only one E. coli strain, containing two plasmids that encode endo-pectate lyases, exo-pectate lyase, and endo-polygalacturonase, caused limited maceration.
(20) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.