(n.) The meantime; time intervening; interval between events, etc.
(n.) A name given to each of three compromises made by the emperor Charles V. of Germany for the sake of harmonizing the connecting opinions of Protestants and Catholics.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
(2) After an interim of no treatment for swine dysentery, sodium arsanilate was fed at a level of 220 parts per million for 21 days.
(3) We present interim survival data for a group of 83 adult patients with recurrent malignant glioma treated by implanting stimulated autologous lymphocytes into the tumour bed following surgical debulking.
(4) The study was terminated prior to accrual of the planned number of patients because of the statistically significant difference in efficacy between treatments found at interim analysis.
(5) In his interim Digital Britain report published last month, Carter called for the creation of a "second institution ... with public purpose at its heart" to rival the BBC and mooted the merger of Channel 4 into a wider entity, potentially involving parts of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
(6) The commission is due to issue an interim report by the end of the year, drawing up a shortlist of potential long-term airport runway schemes.
(7) Such employees are entitled to free advice and in certain cases may qualify for interim daily allowances.
(8) We report here in the interim analysis of an ongoing randomized clinical trial designed to test whether androgen priming enhances tumor chemosensitivity in men with stage D prostate cancer refractory to orchiectomy.
(9) Virgin Trains, which looked set for imminent extinction, is now confident it will be allowed to run the west coast service in the interim, and Branson said he hoped a new, transparent process would mean his company could also soon target the east coast line again .
(10) One of the two last strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists, the town of Bani Walid, has finally been contained, Libya's interim government has claimed, leaving only parts of the ousted tyrant's birthplace out of rebel reach.
(11) The interim Ukrainian president, Alexander Turchynov said “many” pro-Russians had been killed and arrested.
(12) France intervened following a direct request for help from Mali's interim President, Dioncounda Traore.
(13) 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.
(14) Routine application of these techniques would serve as an interim procedure to assess antigenic potency of individual strain components of commercial vaccines until improved tests are developed.
(15) On Monday, Nato declared: "Today, we have declared an interim ballistic missile defence capability as an initial step to establish Nato's missile defence system, which will protect all Nato European territories, populations and forces."
(16) This interim report describes the results in 85 patients.
(17) John Vine, the chief inspector of immigration, who is conducting the official inquiry into who, including ministers, knew what when in a row which has put the home secretary's political reputation on the line, is to publish an interim report as early as next week.
(18) At the request of the state governor, the interim president, Michel Temer, has authorized 1,000 soldiers and 200 marines to bolster security.
(19) Guus Hiddink has not lost a game in his second spell in interim charge, but more revealing is the reality he has won only once in the league to date.
(20) Secondly, results from a program that provides pretrial and interim predictions in clinical trials are displayed, bringing together the use of subjective opinion, Bayesian methodology and techniques for evaluating and criticizing predictions.
Tentative
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
(n.) An essay; a trial; an experiment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(2) The tentative diagnosis "neurinoma of the hypoglossal nerve" was confirmed intraoperatively and histologically.
(3) These compounds were tentatively identified as two epimers at C-23 of 3 alpha,7 alpha,12 alpha-trihydroxy-5 beta-cholestano-26,23-lactone, which were probably artifacts formed from the corresponding tetrahydroxycholestanoic acids during the procedures for extraction after hydrolysis.
(4) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(5) Based on these data, a tentative life cycle for P. carinii in vitro has been proposed.
(6) Investigation of the mechanism of action of the synergistic effect between kanamycin and HA led to the tentative conclusion that potentiation was mediated through an initial alteration of cell permeability by the aminoglycoside antibiotic which permitted accumulation of each of the six HA into the cell, at which point each interacted with pyridoxal phosphate.
(7) Taking this into account, it was tentatively concluded that the mature NDP kinase consists of 147 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of 16,724.
(8) Based on these characteristics, we tentatively ascribe this activity to hepatic very low density lipoprotein, the serum counterpart of which is known to express many immunoregulatory properties.
(9) A tentative scheme of EBV-induced pathogenesis is discussed.
(10) Two new alleles, tentatively designated ORM1*14 and ORM2*13, were identified.
(11) In a previous paper, the main mutagenic compound isolated from the model reaction system D-fructose, DL-alanine and creatinine was tentatively identified as 4,8-DiMeIQx.
(12) Thus it can be tentatively suggested that it is prokallikrein A which is secreted into the pancreatic juice and represents the physiologically important zymogen.
(13) This epithelial cell was tentatively identified as primitive extraembryonic endoderm by its ultrastructural appearance and its possession of cytokeratin intermediate filaments.
(14) Gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric analysis of aglycones released from this conjugate revealed the presence of 3 beta, 5 alpha-tetrahydroaldosterone and an another aglycone, tentatively identified as 21-deoxy-tetrahydroaldosterone.
(15) Iron deficiency has been tentatively excluded as a cause of this anaemia by measurement of serum ferritin levels.
(16) Meiosis is too complex to have arisen at once full blown and a stepwise scheme is proposed for its evolution, where each step is believed to have provided an immediate selective advantage: (1) The first step in this tentative sequence is the development of a haploidization process by means of a rapid series of mitotic non-disjunctions, turned on under conditions where haploidy is favored.
(17) Results of a tentative estimates as to the economic advantages offered by the experimental ASPEP and conditions required to achieve the maximum economic effect by using this system are given.
(18) In 6 cases only a tentative diagnosis of lymphoepitheloid cell malignant lymphoma could be made.
(19) Urine from normal children showed a small acid-labile (at 100 degrees C) peak at the ASA position, which we tentatively assign to genuine ASA.
(20) We tentatively suggest that a preferential loss of contrast sensitivity to horizontal gratings might be due to a functional abnormality in the striate cortex that relatively spares the extrastriate cortex.