(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.
Zero
Definition:
(n.) A cipher; nothing; naught.
(n.) The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences.
(n.) Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his patience had nearly reached zero.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
(2) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(3) The final model has a probability 0.08 of underlying survival time being zero and, given non-zero survival time, takes the form of an exponential distribution with mean of 14.95 months.
(4) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
(5) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(6) Electromagnetic flow probes with an inner diameter of 2, 1.5 and 1 nm were used for studies on zero-line drifting and for calibration procedures in a series of rats and rabbits.
(7) The open probability is weakly voltage dependent, large at zero and positive potentials (cytoplasm minus SR lumen), and decreasing at negative potentials.
(8) Stepwise depolarizations from the holding potential (-67 to -83 mV) to a potential which varied from -10 to +63 mV resulted in an exponential decline of h from its initial level to a final, non-zero level.
(9) Average increases in nonvellus hair counts between months 4 and 12 were 216, 181, and 264 in the 2% minoxidil, 3% minoxidil, and placebo-to-3% minoxidil crossover groups, respectively, all highly significant differences from zero (p = 0.0001).
(10) For data sampled at a high rate (approximately 200 Hz) pupil velocity deviations from zero can simply be used, giving a satisfactory inaccuracy of about 5 ms. For data sampled at a low rate (less than 50 Hz), e.g.
(11) In 15 patients undergoing aortofemoral bypass, partial thromboplastin time (PTT) tests before and following intravenous administration of 75 U. per kilogram of heparin at zero, 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes were determined for study of control of anticoagulant adequacy.
(12) As an index of inhomogeneous distribution of inspired air, the mean dilution number (the ratio of the first to zero moments) was calculated from each multibreath nitrogen washout during spontaneous breathing.
(13) Blood pressure was measured with a random-zero sphygmomanometer every 2 weeks of this 8-week trial.
(14) Pairwise correlation between an affected parent and child is zero: The disease is monogenic (no major expression gene).
(15) Where no fluoride was taken zero dmf scores were 41-69 per cent.
(16) He deploys a zero-risk strategy aimed at keeping his rightwing political base behind him, while convincing the public that he alone could lead the country in times of regional turmoil.
(17) Furthermore, the value of the flux ratio for this substance under conditions of zero electrochemical potential across the bowel wall unequivocally demonstrates active transport.
(18) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
(19) A reduction of tidal volume to zero or an increase by 30% led to a corresponding change of mean carotid artery pH level.
(20) The incidence of probable type B viral hepatitis in patients receiving factor IX concentrate was 13.8 percent (four of 29) versus zero percent (zero of 29) in control patients (difference not significant).