(a.) Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) In this inexplicable world of Roscos (rolling stock companies), TOCs (train operating companies) and the ORR (Office of Rail Regulation), some private firms are allowed to walk away from contracts rather than face losses – as First Group did on the Great Western last week, while others, such as Stagecoach, demand £100m extra just to keep their promises.
(3) Our tolerance for this bizarre and inexplicable system of reward is the most extreme but far from the most damaging effect of the hold that the City has on the country.
(4) This lag in T. pisiformis prevalence was largely inexplicable to us.
(5) Gerard Piqué slid in and inexplicably handled Marcelo’s cross.
(6) It is easy understand that its appearance should turn out to be a complication in the treatment of hypoparathyroidisms or in vitamin D resistant rickets, but its persistance as a purely iatrogenic diseases is at present inexplicable.
(7) An inexplicable finding was a preponderance of right nipple with tumour.
(8) Rumblings of discontent had been circulating for months with the two clashing over player recruitment following a summer of inexplicable inactivity at Bloomfield Road , and the point of no return appeared to be reached when then-Burton boss Gary Rowett was openly offered the job in September.
(9) In addition to the possible role of the renin system there remain inexplicable situations in its regulation that cannot be explained by ACTH and renin.
(10) The Hollywood Reporter reported that , since April, Hail-Hydra.com has inexplicably redirected to the president’s profile page on the White House website.
(11) Jay Prosch almost muffs a punt and then Auburn goes 3 and out, including an inexplicable wildcat play on 2nd down.
(12) As with all Yang's art, one is both captivated and bewildered by its progression of memorable images and inexplicable incidents.
(13) But Bean said it was inexplicable that Vithlani received more than $12m and that most of this was channelled via two offshore companies, one in the British Virgin Islands and the other in Panama.
(14) Inexplicably, instead of rolling or walking the ball into an empty net, Giggs lofted a shot over the bar.
(15) Parents are often the last ones to spot the radicalisation of their children; a view that might seem inexplicable at first, but makes sense when you consider the context in which such radicalisation takes place.
(16) Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase activities were intermittently, and inexplicably, increased for months after the transplant.
(17) Clinical and X-ray exploration revealed a still asymptomatic small-cell bronchial carcinoma, so that the otherwise inexplicable skin lesions made an acrokeratotic paraneoplastic syndrome of the Bazex type seem most likely.
(18) The concentrations of both oestrone and oestradiol remained consistently low for 10 years after the menopause, but oestradiol concentrations inexplicably increased in the last two decades, with levels at the lower end of normal range for reproductive women in six patients.
(19) Analysis of the records of skin cancers for Bristol and Oxford in England showed that during the first decade of this period incidence and mortality for the skin carcinomas, basal cell and squamous cell, fell in line with theory; but both incidence and mortality for melanoma inexplicably rose.
(20) I save it for last,” he told the New York Times earlier this year, in an article exploring China’s inexplicable devotion to the tune.
Undefinable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These methods can be applied to the purification and characterization of the as yet undefined secretory and circulating forms of PTHrP.
(2) The data dissociate two 1,25(OH)2D effects, direct attenuation of activation of Ns via the PTH receptor and interference with the as yet undefined mechanism(s) of GC augmentation.
(3) Differences in the degree of inhibition of the binding of the two MABs by individual anti-A or -A,B samples indicate that polyclonal reagents are composed of varying proportions of up to 3 (or more) different antibody specificities, each recognizing a distinct epitope: PL41-like, AL62-like and a third (as yet undefined) category of antibody.
(4) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
(5) Thus, IVBAT appears to be a low-grade malignant mesenchymal neoplasm, composed of poorly differentiated mesenchymal cells, whose exact nature remains undefined with the currently used cell-type markers.
(6) This result suggests the presence on the peptidoglycan of gram-negative bacteria, of other undefined antigenic determinants.
(7) Genetic and biochemical evidence indicates that the product of the ros locus is a negative regulator of Ti plasmid genes and is related to undefined chromosomally encoded functions that are involved in the mutant phenotype.
(8) This enzyme was originally found as an undefined protein kinase, which could be activated by limited proteolysis by a Ca2(+)-dependent neutral protease, calpain.
(9) The nature of these undefined opioid binding sites is discussed.
(10) L3T4 may be an early component of the system that transduces the activation signal from the T-cell receptor complex to the cytoplasm, a cell-surface receptor for a yet undefined natural ligand that delivers a negative signal to the killer T cell, or it may modulate the avidity of the antigen-specific T-cell receptor through a direct physical association with it.
(11) Although, their insensitivity to low Cd2+ concentrations and sensitivity to Ni2+ ions would support the involvement of T-type calcium channels, the lack of effect of amiloride suggests that they belong to a yet undefined class of calcium channels.
(12) If, as a result of recent accomodations between man and the group A streptococcus, the risk of rheumatic fever is less, an undefinable risk nevertheless remains.
(13) The pathological events leading to the formation of an intracerebral hematoma following the evacuation of a chronic subdural hematoma still remain undefined.
(14) The data point to the presence of an as yet undefined CD4+ T cell-derived granuloma-inducing factor and favor the hypothesis that CD8+ T cells, in collaboration with circulating phagocytes, mediate immunity by rapidly liberating listeriae from permissive cells or protecting them from becoming infected.
(15) It is proposed that serum myoglobin is a reliable measure of myocardial necrosis and serves to detect a hitherto undefined population of small-size acute myocardial infarction, with its attendant clinical and prognostic implications.
(16) The generation of the stimulatory factor(s) present in glucocorticoid-conditioned medium is apparently dependent upon undefined cellular alterations which result from the subcultivation-procedure; confluent or low-density quiescent cultures did not generate media stimulatory to cell growth in the presence of glucocorticoids.
(17) Comparison of these data versus the known structure-activity relationships of alpha-MSH related to CNS bioactivities suggests the existence of nonclassical alpha-MSH receptor-mediated pathways or, perhaps, a yet undefined endogenous neuropeptidergic pathway(s) having different selectivities for alpha-MSH analogs.
(18) A normal electrical control activity frequency was present in three patients, one with a proven neuropathy and two with undefined pathology.
(19) These latter antibodies may recognize HLA DR or another as yet undefined gene product within, or closely associated to, the human MHC.
(20) Activation of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D formation may be secondary to hypophosphatemia or other, as yet undefined, factors.