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Immeasurably


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an immeasurable manner or degree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the iv-dosed pony, 14C became immeasurable in plasma within 12 h after dosing and appeared in bile within 30 min, with maximum biliary concentration occurring at about 1 h. Monensin accounted for a minimum of 19% of the 14C in a 56- to 72-h sample of feces for one orally-dosed pony and a minimum of 25% of the 14C in feces from the same time period for the other.
  • (2) The inherent noise of the pressure transducer was found to be approximately 0.2 mm Hg, while the noise of the piezoelectric transducer was immeasurably low.
  • (3) When Jv was zero, the collectate-to-perfusate ratios of FITC-Dx (RDX) and 125I-albumin (Ralb) in the DVR and AVR were identical implying that diffusive efflux of albumin was immeasurably small.
  • (4) "An invalid agency decision to suspend drilling of wells in depths of over 500 feet simply cannot justify the immeasurable effect on the plaintiffs, the local economy, the Gulf region, and the critical present-day aspect of the availability of domestic energy in this country," Feldman said in his ruling, according to the Associated Press news agency.
  • (5) The approach presented is based upon a statistical power calculation technique, a knowledge of the variability associated with the methods to be compared and the criteria for equivalence (the limits within which differences become immeasurable or, for practical purposes, insignificant).
  • (6) As pluralistic as our society may be, and no matter how relevant cultural and subcultural values may be, it is an incontrovertible fact that, by exceedingly early childbearing, poor teenagers who are black immeasurably increase their inherent disadvantages to pursue education and acquire marketable skills, not to mention attractive jobs.
  • (7) An anti-marriage equality booklet published by the Catholic church could cause “immeasurable harm” and should be investigated by Tasmania’s anti-discrimination commissioner, a marriage equality advocate says.
  • (8) The ancillary disciplines of neuroradiology and neuroanesthesia have aided the surgeon immeasurably in the planning of his operation, but the final results still depend basically on the surgeon's ability and judgment in that difficult decision "should I go for broke or stop?"
  • (9) The qualities of charcter that made him such an outstanding leader affected all who worked with him and helped immeasurably in the further evolution of surgery into a productive and valuable discipline.
  • (10) GABA produced a large fall in cell input resistance, frequently to immeasurable levels.
  • (11) She even made her party's policy on immigration sound immeasurably more populist and clearer than Labour's – though it is now the same as the government's view.
  • (12) Even two years on, the pain we feel is still immeasurable,” she said.
  • (13) But clearly results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared.
  • (14) Calculations of unitary currents at 2 mM Ca indicated that the single-channel currents would be immeasurably small (i.e., < 0.1 pA).
  • (15) Each operation contributes immeasurably to the comfort and survival of patients with terminal renal failure, and each must be performed with careful attention to detail.
  • (16) The receptor association rate constant (9.6 X 10(2) M-1 s-1) is extremely low although the dissociation rate constant was immeasurable.
  • (17) Wakefield, the obscure medical fraudster, is esteemed by a Hollywood star of such immeasurable stature and influence that great US Democrats prostrate themselves for his approval.
  • (18) 11.00pm BST "Alan Shearer's authority has, in the eyes of all right-thinking people, gone up immeasurably after being subject to the candid assessment of Joe Eff Cee Kinnear," writes Charles Antaki.
  • (19) Through such collaboration, the academician gains immeasurably by being able to study common clinical problems in primary care settings, where they are encountered most often.
  • (20) Meanwhile – and I accept that this may be hard for readers to take – liberals ought to realise that the inability of the state to deport Islamist preachers and foreign criminals has made life immeasurably harder for refugees who threaten no one.

Infinitesimal


Definition:

  • (a.) Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small.
  • (n.) An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any assignable quantity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first 2 ms of these transients were described by a linear model in which the fibre is regarded as a rod composed of infinitesimally small, identical segments containing a mass, one undamped elastic element and in the case of relaxed fibres two damped elastic elements in series, or in the case of activated fibres three such elastic elements in series.
  • (2) These equations can be solved easily by stepwise numerical integration involving sucessive infinitesimal rotations (SIR).
  • (3) The present day IBV might be progeny from a unique pool of primordial genome via mutation and host-induced variation, or even persistence of primordial virus as an infinitesimal portion of the population.
  • (4) Examples of current input considered are (1) an infinitesimally brief (Dirac delta function) pulse and (2) a step pulse.
  • (5) Pickup, now 71, recalls the "horrible, infinitesimal detail of how accurate you had to be, partly because you didn't want stones bouncing off the pram into the audience".
  • (6) The chances of Keeler being installed in Downing Street were infinitesimal.
  • (7) For infinitesimal steps the eigen-functions of the diffusion operator are known analytically, while for random motion of arbitrary step size they are determined by diagonalizing the transition matrix appropriate for the step model used.
  • (8) The two principal plasminogen activators (PA) and the two PA-inhibitors are present in infinitesimal concentrations in blood (pM to microM range) and in tissues.
  • (9) Experimental spectra are compared with computer simulations of spectra carried out for isotropic Brownian (limit of infinitesimal step size) and free diffusion (arbitrary step size) models.
  • (10) The infinitesimal change in entropy of a system (dS) is calculated by measuring how much heat has entered a closed system (δQ) divided by the common temperature (T) at the point where the heat transfer took place.
  • (11) However, incidence data indicate the chance of disclosing tumors, non-inflammatory cysts or other serious bone disease in the asymptomatic patient by screening jaw films is infinitesimal.
  • (12) Statistical analysis permitted empirical evaluation of creep of the cellular membrane within the range of infinitesimal stress.
  • (13) "The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small," he argues, "and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun."
  • (14) Of course, fear of risk is actually the bestselling tool of all: it is the basis of the entire insurance industry, whose profit base is predicated on the fact that fear is a very real emotion selling the product, but the statistical probability of anything actually happening, well, that is infinitesimal.
  • (15) The armed seizure of the Crimean parliament, the cynical insistence that Russian troops were not operating in Crimea when they clearly were, and the breakneck speed and flagrant violations involved in organising the Crimean referendum at short notice have been hidden behind a thread of plausible deniability stretched infinitesimally thin – and a knowing smirk on Putin's face.
  • (16) It is shown that the behavior of these waves may be explained, to a large extent, by considering the effect of the continuous stream of infinitesimal reflections that is set up whenever any wave travels in a region of vessel where the local impedance, (that is, the ratio of elastic wavespeed to tube area) is not constant.
  • (17) These changes could not be attributed to the effects of inbreeding or of selection in an infinitesimal model and suggested that some change in variance due to change in gene frequency had occurred during the course of the experiment.
  • (18) Ten healthy subjects received two treatments: a single 1 g oral dose of nalidixic acid (NA) followed 1 h later by either an infinitesimal dilution of the drug (NA 7CH) or by succussed water which served as placebo.
  • (19) The finite deformation theory describes the large strain behavior of cartilage observed in one-dimensional confined compression experiments at equilibrium, and it reduces to the linear biphasic theory under infinitesimal strain and slow strain rate conditions.
  • (20) Watson jokes that he has worked out that his Luton Town has an infinitesimally small chance of making it to the Premier League in time for matches to be aired on BT Vision before the end of the three-year deal in 2016.

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