(n.) The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.
(n.) A change effected by innovating; a change in customs; something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.
(n.) A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.
Example Sentences:
(1) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(2) An innovative magnetic resonance imaging technique was applied to the measurement of blood flow in the abdominal aorta.
(3) This is about the best experience for our users: the idea that the experience was lacking, the innovation was lacking and we weren't reaching that ubiquity."
(4) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
(5) By its pragmatic conception, modifications obtained by psychoactive agents are used (antidepressants of the group imipramine and IMAO, classical benzodiazepines and alprazolam, provocation controlled in laboratory) in order to strengthen innovating hypotheses and allow to elaborate useful treatment strategies for neuroses.
(6) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(7) However, it remains clear that new and innovative techniques are necessary in the therapeutic, adjuvant, and palliative settings in the comprehensive care of the patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.
(8) Two recent innovations in time-dose models are reviewed: the linear-quadratic (L-Q) and the variable-exponent Time-Dose Factor (TDF) models.
(9) For creativity to flourish, schools have to feel free to innovate without the constant fear of being penalised for not keeping with the programme.
(10) Dustin Benton Dustin Benton, head of resource stewardship, Green Alliance Creating a circular economy will take action in three areas: the economy, policy and politics, and innovation.
(11) Study 2 provides evidence that an innovative weighted scoring approach, based on current medical consensus, can be used to produce a reliable, general index of pathology that is independent of the number of procedures used to evaluate patients.
(12) It has given momentum to innovative tendencies in psychiatry.
(13) We want it because it improves performance, innovation, values.
(14) Pioneers (41% of Britons) are global, networked, like innovation and believe in the importance of ethics.
(15) We now hope that our support of the offer will play its part in the future success of the bank under the innovative hybrid structure which enshrines co-operative values while providing sound governance and access to capital markets."
(16) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
(17) An innovative approach to treatment planning is described in which a planned dose distribution is evaluated in terms of prescribed limits of acceptability, and any discrepancies (referred to as "regions of regret") are displayed in the form of a contour diagram in which colors are used to represent different types and degrees of regret.
(18) Mobile phone technology has come a long way since the first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago – but there is a lot more innovation ahead, according to one expert.
(19) The resections necessary are often more extensive than predicted preoperatively, which provides an opportunity for innovative approaches using radiation therapy.
(20) He added: "Jobs and innovation and skills are really at a premium and are so needed, particularly in a place like the UK."
Innovatory
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes an innovatory teaching programme in health care ethics for medical undergraduates.
(2) Compared to steady-state work tests strict observation of the standardized procedure- and computer assisted evaluation of ergospirometric parameters offer innovatory opportunities: (1) the test is of short duration (8-14 min), (2) the subjects recover rapidly, even from an exhausting test, (3) one is more likely to be able to observe plateauing of VO2, should determination of maximal VO2 be desired, (4) adaptation to increasing work rates and maximal work capacity is assessable, (5) computer technics provide on-line assessment of aerobic and anaerobic power in quantitative terms, (6) measurements proved to be highly reproducible, (7) the relationship between variables such as increments of heart rate and systolic blood pressure, respiratory minute volume, oxygen uptake during the early phase of the non-steady-state condition and the index of anaerobic power, and the influence of factors such as work load and work output, has been studied to derive standard values.
(3) This paper provides a description and an evaluation of an innovatory full-time degree programme that provides advanced study of nursing, behavioural, life and social sciences combined with the study of education and leading to a teaching qualification recordable with the United Kingdom Central Council (UKCC).
(4) A two-year study was undertaken in 1975--1976 to plan, implement and evaluate innovatory family planning educational and service delivery pilot projects, among those at-risk in Sydney.
(5) Anecdotal accounts suggest that stimuli of personal relevance, or of an unusual or innovatory nature, may sometimes elicit more meaningful responses.
(6) The projects are signals of the ongoing changes being led by the BBC director of drama commissioning, Ben Stephenson, who earlier this week warned that some popular series would have to be culled to make way for innovatory dramas.
(7) The goal of the treatment for urinary calculous patients should be the prevention of recurrent stone formation because the surgical treatment is only the removal of existing stones, even recent advance of innovatory procedures could confer the less invasive benefits on urinary calculous patients.
(8) Tests were performed by means of both standard light microscopy and an innovatory method based on flow cytometry, an up-to-date investigative technique for computerized analysis of individual cell characteristics.
(9) The innovatory features incorporated into A.G. Levy's regulating chloroform inhaler, and their contribution to modern vaporizer design, are examined.
(10) Jamaican music was quickest to pick up the new mood of black America, and add its own innovatory ideas to create reggae.
(11) And the same professors feared Annan's innovatory intentions and were uneasy over new appointments, since he had a wide range of friends and contacts.
(12) Recently, innovatory procedures for stone removal have been introduced and the excellent advances of Endourology and ESWL (extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy) revolutionized the surgical treatment of renal calculous disease.