(n.) Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.
(n.) Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections.
(n.) Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties.
(n.) A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind.
(n.) That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple doses of cholestyramine significantly altered HCTZ kinetics, including reductions in Ae(0-24) by 35% (P less than 0.02), AUC(0-infinity) by 32% (P less than 0.01), and Cmax by 31% (P less than 0.01).
(2) The Infinity towel comes in colours more vibrant than one might expect from an eco-friendly product, including coral, green, blue and violet.
(3) In the interim, Gough had also played a devious old friend of the Doctor – by now, Peter Davison – in the 1983 story Arc of Infinity.
(4) The rate constants and steady-state values for m were in agreement with the Hodgkin-Huxley equations except that the experimental relationship of m(infinity) (3) against V was shifted 10-15 mV in the negative direction.
(5) 115 mM-TEA reduced the amplitude of [I(m)(0) - I(m)(infinity)] by about 85%.3.
(6) Some spoke of access to on-site rooftop infinity swimming pools and top of the range company cars.
(7) The final expression is mathematically accurate to 1% and is valid for image radii ranging from 20 to 500 mum and for exposure times from 30 ms to infinity.
(8) The data from the other 15 subjects showed small differences, which did not achieve statistical significance between the formulations with respect to Cmax, Tpeak and AUC0-infinity.
(9) We introduce the following functions of alpha m and beta m. (sequence in text) where VH, td and tau p stand for holding potential, constant delay time of 10 microseconds, and transit time of the transition velocity of alpha m (or beta m) from its initial value alpha om (or beta om) to its final steady value alpha infinity m (or beta infinity m), respectively.
(10) A second technician was arranged and claimed that BT often sells Infinity 2 for lines that can’t support the guaranteed speed.
(11) In adult myocytes, when EGTA (10 or 20 mM) or bis(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (BAPTA, 10 mM) were included in the pipette solution, contractions were rapidly abolished, while a small (4 mV) shift of f infinity to more positive potentials was seen.
(12) By contrast, BT signed up 400,000 subscribers to its fibre product, Infinity, with 95,000 added in the last quarter.
(13) In the time-dependent transfer of a lipid from a donor to an acceptor vesicle population a(t) is the amount transferred to the acceptor vesicles at time t, a infinity is the equilibrium transfer value and a0 is the value at zero time.
(14) In the last quarter, 131,000 signed up for the BT Infinity fibre-to-the-cabinet product, which offers speeds of up to 76mbps and is being priced on a par with the fastest copper lines, meaning BT now has more than half a million fibre customers.
(15) We’re focusing on that right now with Infinity War while we’re breaking into those movies, [to see] which characters we can pull to the forefront who potentially haven’t had their own ‘A’ story arc to this point.
(16) After pulsed excitation with a polarized light, the fluorescence anisotropy ratio of DPH in membranes rapidly decreased and gave a final value (r infinity).
(17) The area under the plasma concentration-time curve from t = 0 to infinity (AUC infinity) of S(-)-mepivacaine was almost double that of R(+)-mepivacaine.
(18) From the results of intravenous injections one can deduce linear ibuprofen pharmacokinetics within the considered dosage range, with corresponding AUC0-infinity values of 3786 micrograms * min ml-1 and 7260 micrograms * min ml-1 for the 200 mg and 400 mg doses, respectively.
(19) The voltage dependence of the use-dependent block produced by cocaine isomers did not overlap with the activation of Na+ channels but did overlap with the steady-state inactivation (h infinity), indicating that cocaine can bind directly to the inactivated state of Na+ channels before channel opening.
(20) Following administration of 1000 mg MPA the areas under the plasma concentration-time curves (AUC 0-infinity) were calculated to (mean and S.E.
Optics
Definition:
(n.) That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(2) This study examined both the effect of variations in optical fiber tip and in light wavelength on laser-induced hyperthermia in rat brain.
(3) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
(4) Once the normal variations are mastered, appreciation of retinal, choroidal, optic nerve, and vitreal abnormalities is possible.
(5) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
(6) CW Nd:YAG light transmitted by fiber optic cable and sapphire crystal was applied transsclerally to the ciliary body of pigmented and albino rabbits.
(7) Unlike results seen in the goldfish optic nerve, injury to the rat optic nerve induced no observable increase in laminin content or change in its distribution.
(8) This is the first report of anterior ischemic optic neuropathy as a result of hemodialysis-associated hypotension.
(9) It is shown that, by comparison of a reacting mixture at chemical equilibrium with a non-reacting but equally composed one, the sum of the mean concentrations of the reaction products can immediately be taken from optical absorption or from interferometric measurements.
(10) A television camera scans the spread through microscope optics; computer and special purpose electronics process the video signals to generate run length histograms.
(11) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
(12) The optical and oxygen binding properties of the reconstituted myoglobins containing two isomeric monoformyl-monovinylhemins were found to be different.
(13) These images were previously determined by using a recently developed hybrid optical-digital method.
(14) The development of optical fibers capable of transmitting laser energy has encouraged the experimental use of laser irradiation for the treatment of acquired cardiovascular disorders.
(15) This technique is sensitive to the optical anisotropy within the muscle, including that due to intrinsic properties of the protein molecules as well as that due to the regular arrangement of proteins in the surrounding medium.
(16) Patients should be evaluated by perimetry using an appropriate strategy and contrast sensitivity testing, along with careful examination of the optic discs.
(17) Thus, during treatment with ethambutol visually (pattern) evoked potentials may reveal a surprisingly high percentage of subclinical optic neuritis.
(18) The optical efficiencies are similar and depend on the match of the excitation characteristics of the stain with the emission spectra of the light source.
(19) Morphological results demonstrated that 30 Gy irradiated animals showed extensive necrosis primarily in the fimbria, which extended into the internal capsule, optic nerve, hippocampus, and thalamus.
(20) A compact attachment for microscope-type instruments is described enabling to introduce, rapidly and qualitatively, minute biological speciments into melted embedding medium and ensuring the safety of optics.