(n.) A burstion inwards, as of a vessel from which the air has been exhausted; -- contrasted with explosion.
(n.) A sudden compression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, //159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sound of b, d, and g, heard in Southern Germany.
Example Sentences:
(1) His message suggested a Grexit was now inevitable as he stressed the need for EU humanitarian programmes to forestall social implosion in Greece.
(2) Thus the main population explosion – or to give it its proper name, the population implosion – is still to come.
(3) While the Sala news was significant, it was overshadowed by the implosion of Raggi’s administration, in part because she holds the office with the highest profile in her party.
(4) Towards the end there's a sequence in which David Carr, the compellingly watchable media correspondent, is probing away at the circumstances behind the near-implosion of the Tribune company under its new owners, who seem to care little for the company's core journalistic traditions or mission.
(5) This paper presents the theoretical bases of the counterconditioning techniques of systematic desensitization and the extinction techniques of implosion therapy and flooding.
(6) If the workforce implosion includes the departure of senior managers, there is a loss of knowledge of history and previous learning and an inevitable hiatus in building a new organisational culture.
(7) The management of Abbey, Buxton said, had presided over the "implosion of the business, the need for an entirely new management team" and an offer from Santander that was lower than the two that were rejected.
(8) But pollsters, party operatives and confidantes agreed: the best set-up for a Biden moment would be a Clinton implosion – and it might be near.
(9) But after Walker’s campaign implosion showed that Super Pac money alone cannot compensate for a lack of buzz among supporters, Bush’s strategy may prove the ultimate test of whether the one-time establishment favourite can strong-arm himself back into the lead.
(10) On the face of it, the Hoosiers don't seem like victims of the music industry's implosion: the London-based band were given the full-on major label push in 2007, and sold a million records.
(11) Regardless, his 11-pitch at-bat against Clayton Kershaw in Game Six of the NLCS which set the stage for his implosion is now a moment of St Louis lore.
(12) We’ve always known there was a group of people within the Coalition who would have rather died with Tony Abbott than lived with Malcolm Turnbull, but it’s still startling to watch a political party indulging a public implosion when the stakes are so very high.
(13) Most experts attribute the revival to one factor above all: the adoption of multiple currencies, principally the US dollar, after the Zimbabwean dollar's implosion.
(14) 'It has no chance': Socialist party heading for implosion in French elections Read more The final-round battle between the two men will be a bruising encounter between two wings of the Socialist party, which has been bitterly divided throughout François Hollande’s troubled presidency.
(15) Somalia's implosion has not just threatened its own people: analysts say al-Shabaab poses a serious threat to the region.
(16) "A stalemate slanting towards the regime, or a situation that really resembles a rebel implosion.
(17) Despite cuts in educational budgets, increased student fees and the general implosion of the social fabric, the addiction persists.
(18) The immersion in water made a strong implosion visible which may result in considerable tissue damage in vivo.
(19) The new government was effectively imposed by Italy's octogenarian president Giorgio Napolitano , who was returned to an extraordinary second seven-year term in office by the implosion of the PD during the parliamentary presidential voting.
(20) Those conditions predate the current implosion in the euro group .
Integration
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of making whole or entire.
(n.) The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.
(n.) In the theory of evolution: The process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent. It is supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(3) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
(4) The data on mapping the episomal plasmid integration sites in yeast chromosomes I, III, IV, V, VII, XV are presented.
(5) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
(6) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(7) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.
(8) 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.
(9) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(10) We conclude that neuronal activities in the region of the retrofacial nucleus are important both in the integration of stimuli from the central chemoreceptors and in defining the discharge patterns of respiratory neurons.
(11) Only Arteparon had a favorable effect on the integrity of the articular surface.
(12) The process of integrating the two banks is expected to take three years, with predictions that up to 25,000 roles could eventually be eliminated.
(13) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(14) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.
(15) The resistance of GSA 65 to proteolytic degradation, together with previous immunofluorescence data that indicate the antigen is an integral part of the G. lamblia cyst wall, suggests that this molecule may play a role in maintaining the integrity of the cyst in vivo.
(16) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
(17) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(18) The problem-based system provides a unique integration of acquiring theoretical knowledge in the basic sciences through clinical problem solving which was highly rated in all analysed phases.
(19) These included: 1) association of infectious processes with other laboratory results; 2) a feeling of integration with the patient and health care team; and 3) the introduction of medical terminology.
(20) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.