(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.
Void
Definition:
(a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
(a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.
(a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use.
(a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
(a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
(a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
(n.) An empty space; a vacuum.
(a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
(a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.
(a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.
(v. i.) To be emitted or evacuated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(2) The Lex antigen was present in the void volume fraction of the majority (85%) of sera from adenocarcinoma patients.
(3) To facilitate detoxification, the centrifuge is employed to provide plasma rich in toxins, but void of potentially interfering blood components such as platelets and whole blood cells.
(4) The acquisition of dryness is accelerated by eradication of bacteriuria and a sympathetic and energetic management regime, which should place responsibility on the child and result in the child voiding more frequently and completely.
(5) Excretory urogram revealed bilateral hydronephrosis and voiding cystogram revealed VUR on left ureter.
(6) Primary invasive adenocarcinoma of the bladder was diagnosed in a fifty-two-year-old male with a two-month history of irritative voiding symptoms.
(7) Residual urine volume and urine voiding efficiency are also calculated.
(8) During unstable detrusor contractions, which even in these healthy women are observed during bladder filling and also during inhibited voidings through the urethra, the contraction is weaker.
(9) Some of this LPS-associated polysaccharide eluted as the void volume of a G-100 column but differed from PS by its lack of galactose and arabinose.
(10) Cytological examination of voided urine is an established investigation in urological practice.
(11) At 12 months TURP had also improved micturition time and voided volume, which TUI had not.
(12) Chlamydia trachomatis was detected from first-voided urine sediments of 97 male patients with urethritis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
(13) SEM of the resulting surface showed rounded fragments of enamel rods, enamel melting, cracks, and smooth-edged voids.
(14) By 16 weeks, fibrocartilage had filled the void in the curetted disc spaces.
(15) Both the void volume protein peak and the procoagulant activity peak from the 0.25 M calcium chloride-agarose gel column support ristocetin-induced platelet aggregation.
(16) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
(17) Cation exchange chromatography on carboxymethylcellulose-Sephadex with a starting buffer of pH 5 containing 2 mM CHAPS plus 20 mM beta-OG, followed by a pH 8 buffer, showed a very small OD peak at the void volume (P) and a second peak with about 95% of the protein (E).
(18) The one peak which was common to both sera appeared with the void volume and was identified as albumin.
(19) The first peak eluted at the void volume containing lipoproteins, alpha 2- and beta 2-macroglobulins, and the second peak at the fraction of albumin.
(20) Oxendolone + bunazosin tended to show a better clinical efficacy than the other of these regimens, when the improvement was defined as that with more than one degree in the severity of retarded voiding, prolonged voiding, urinary stream condition, abdominal pressure on voiding and residual urine sensation.