(n.) The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adhesion mechanism of MS is quite different from that of interpenetration and polymerization of monomers.
(2) The investigation of the degree of interpenetration between the two component phases of whewellite kidney stones, the protein matrix and calcium oxalate monohydrate crystallites, is extended by a technique of microchemical analysis, employing X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).
(3) The three concentric zones of the horse adrenal cortex (zonae glomerulosa, fasciculata and reticularis) showed marked interpenetration and exhibited a different relative development according to their position in the gland.
(4) In each concrete case these aspects interpenetrate and bear the mark of the culture in which they are observed.
(5) In the first series, n-butylmethacrylate (BMA) was copolymerized with NIPAAm, and in the second, polytetramethylene ether glycol (PTMEG) was incorporated into NIPAAm network as a chemically independent interpenetrating network.
(6) Calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals wee basically dipyramidal, a majority of them showing interpenetrant twinning.
(7) A relatively increased hydrophilicity of hydrophobicity of the interpenetrating polymer networks as in the case of polyurethane-polyvinyl pyrrolidone and polyurethane-poly(methyl methacrylate) interpenetrating polymer networks, respectively, could elicit an inert response whilst degradation of materials promoted reactivity.
(8) The boundary between tendon and muscle is sharp, without interpenetration of the two tissues.
(9) Official Russian opinion looks forward to “the interpenetration and integration of the EEU and the Silk Road Economic Belt” into a “Greater Eurasia”, which will afford a “steady developing safe common neighbourhood of Russia and China”.
(10) We show that the static and dynamic elastic moduli below a critical degree of shear strain are much higher than previously reported, consistent with extreme interpenetration, but that higher strain or treatment with very low concentrations of the F-actin severing protein gelsolin greatly diminish the moduli and cause F-actin to exhibit rheologic behavior expected for independent semidilute rods, and defined by the dimensions of the filaments, including shear rate independent viscosity below a critical shear rate.
(11) Surfaces of bone were modified in a controlled manner by grafting or by adding interpenetrating polymeric side chains to the bone substrate.
(12) This shows that lexical semantics and phrasal semantics interpenetrate deeply, and that there is no strict one-to-one correspondence between syntactic and semantic structures.
(13) Adipocytes of exaggerated size interpenetrate into micro- and later into macronodules marked off by more or less structured conjunctive fibrilla, thereby making treatment difficult.
(14) The mayor, who upstaged Gordon Brown at the London House reception at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 when he said that "wiff waff" – his term for ping pong – would return to Britain, proffered Harry Potter as proof of "cultural interpenetration" between China and the UK.
(15) Key points in the discussion include the argument that systems theory is an inadequate explanatory matrix from which to build a theory of the family, that the archetypal "family case" of the overinvolved mother and peripheral father is best understood, not as a clinical problem, but as the product of a historical process two hundred years in the making, and that power relations between men and women in families function in terms of paradoxical, incongruous hierarchies that reflect the complex interpenetration between the structure of family relations and the world of work.
(16) The observation of the fractured surface after the tensile test and interface between precipitated MS and tooth indicated that the liner did not interpenetrate into the dentin through the immobilized MS on the tooth.
(17) Definition of this parameter is based on the model of a "viscosity-emulsion" composed of two interpenetrating liquid compartments which are characterized by different levels of hydrodynamic friction and the spatial dimensions of which are inferred from Ogston's theory.
(18) (6) From qualitative calculations of the van der Walls' hydrophobic interactions of the lipid species, the phospholipid condensing effect of cholesterol is postulated to arise from increased interpenetration of the flexible methylene segments of the acyl chains, as a direct result of their greater mutual attraction compared to their attraction for neighboring sterol molecules.
(19) That case continues, as does the investigation into allegations of the corrupt interpenetration of News International and the Metropolitan police.
(20) By using the composite structure of the natural material as a model a new family of hydrogels, based on interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) technology, has been developed.
Penetration
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.
(n.) Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration.
Example Sentences:
(1) The penetration of (22)Na was not prevented by the presence of metabolic inhibitors or by 500 mm NaCl in the suspending medium.
(2) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(3) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(4) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(5) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(6) Thus, although ferric-enterochelin cannot penetrate the cell surface from outside, the complex that is formed within the envelope is transported normally into the cell.
(7) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
(8) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
(9) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
(10) All of these factors make morbidity and mortality associated with penetrating injuries low.
(11) The treatment led to decreased spinnbarkeit, arborization and sperum penetration in the cervical mucus.
(12) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(13) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(14) This apparent lack of centrosomal staining was not due to problems associated with penetration of the antibody probes, since staining adjacent to and within the centriolar cylinder was observed when phosphoprotein antigens recognized by the MPM-2 antibody were localized.
(15) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(16) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
(17) The time of sperm penetration in the mouse eggs, however, was delayed for one-half to one hour when ejaculated sperm were used.
(18) Enzymatic lability does not, however, play as important a role as lipophilicity in the corneal and conjunctival penetration of cycloalkyl and aryl ester prodrugs.
(19) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(20) Kinetic studies showed that significant inhibition of virus production occurred when the inhibitor was added to infected cultures up to 5 h after virus penetration.