(a.) Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied.
(a.) Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of cigarettes consumed was apparently immaterial.
(2) "Every bit of information, no matter how irrelevant or immaterial, is sensationalised, where opinions and even accusations are treated as fact."
(3) He made a controlled change for Nasri on for Navas and a defensive change, Demichelis for Sterling, so at this moment everyone knows the 1-0 is a result they want to keep.” Pellegrini was pleased with his side’s performance but believes City’s points advantage over Chelsea is immaterial.
(4) But, “in a way, it’s a bit immaterial whether the rain comes and puts it out or doesn’t put it out.
(5) Because people whose entire news network is dedicated to stoking the fear, anger and passions of citizens by way of animating myths and repeated use of the word “they” – they all know that 100% accuracy is immaterial to that which the heart yearns to hear.
(6) In the dead above 65 the difference between age-dependent and denture-induced alterations of the parenchyma was statistically immaterial.
(7) Where the money was going or not going was immaterial.
(8) The purpose of this paper is to describe a procedure that appears to have been lost with time and that reduces excess density [immaterial of the cause] on radiographs.
(9) This week's report says that government action is immaterial, drug consumption being unaffected by changes in classification, prison sentencing or education.
(10) But Britain prompted the creation of a second funding strand known as "immaterial assistance" to cover counselling and budget maintenance but not food banks.
(11) The effects of hemoglobin and methemoglobin were virtually identical, suggesting that the oxidation state of the metallic center is immaterial, and analyses of peritoneal contents during lethal peritonitis promoted by either adjuvant revealed insignificant interconversions of these compounds.
(12) The given paper is concerned with a study into electropulse diagnosis of changes in the anus in 31 patients without derangement of locking function, with immaterial functional disorders, and with gross organic pathology.
(13) Temperature was immaterial to salmonellae in broths with ambient slightly better than 35 C, but shigellae preferred 20 C and showed a 50% failure rate at 40 C, ambient being equal to 35 C. The preferential rank of broths in efficacy was GN greater than selenite greater than saline greater than CB greater than direct for salmonellae; for shigellae, GN greater than saline greater than direct greater than CB greater than selenite, with selenite proving to be unsuitable for shigellae.
(14) To be frank, I think that is a rather immaterial point.
(15) However, when examining rank order statistics for visiting and out-patient referral rates, it was immaterial for most doctors which denominator was chosen.
(16) The main objective of youth health care is to promote health as well as development in interaction with environmental factors (material and immaterial).
(17) The curve generated from the cardiac region of interest (ROI) provided clearances values that had a high correlation coefficient (0.939-0.951) compared to the multiple-plasma sample technique immaterial of the timing of the blood sample.
(18) "The tenant's own circumstances happen to be immaterial … The issue is one of turning a subsidised property into a private let," Moat chief executive Brian Johnson said in a letter to Andre's MP.
(19) Wether infusion took place 30, 15 or five days before drying off appeared immaterial.
(20) Previous clonal analysis showed that the epidermal genotype was immaterial in knot formation.
Vitalism
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(2) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
(3) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(4) The highest antishock effect of dopamine is reached when cardiac output fraction addressed to thoracic region vitals is supported by dopamine on the 43-45% level.
(5) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
(6) Vital staining of neuroblastoma cells with acridine orange produces a bright intracellular red-orange fluorescence most probably due to the occurrence of RNA.
(7) Even if it does not always provide the solution to a particularly delicate problem, which is often of vital importance, it provides data which, modifiable and better used, should provide an adequate notion of the anatomical and physiopathological state in aortic stenosis.
(8) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(9) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
(10) However, these votes will be vital for Hollande in the second round.
(11) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."
(12) It is generally agreed upon that ERT is fruitless in the patient with severe head trauma or when vital signs were absent at the scene of the injury.
(13) As a result of recent environmental changes in the health care industry, marketing has become a vital necessity for the survival of most hospitals.
(14) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
(15) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
(16) The following 10 products were tested: Ensure Plus, Ensure, Enrich, Osmolite, Pulmocare, Citrotein, Resource, Vivonex TEN, Vital, and Hepatic Acid II.
(17) Effects of fixation with glutaraldehyde (GA), glutaraldehyde-osmium tetroxide (GA-OsO(4)), and osmium tetroxide (OsO(4)) on ion and ATP content, cell volume, vital dye staining, and stability to mechanical and thermal stress were studied in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (EATC).
(18) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
(19) The ratio of forced expiratory volume in the first second to forced vital capacity was not significantly different between individuals with or without a past history of heart attack, angina pectoris or ECG evidence of coronary heart disease.
(20) The amount of formazan obtained after incubating vital cells with Meldola Blue as electron carrier was greater than that obtained with Methylene Blue, menadione, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, 1-methoxyphenazine methosulphate or phenazine methosulphate.