(n.) A sort of light spear, to be thrown or cast by thew hand; anciently, a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game.
(v. t.) To pierce with a javelin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Then came the javelin and I threw a personal best.
(2) Echocardiographic studies and radiological measurements of heart volume were performed in 30 female track athletes, 17 female shot-putters or javelin throwers, 12 nonathletic women and 8 female patients with arterial hypertension.
(3) Since the new javelin introduced in 1986 requires a greater explosive force, a tendency to an increased incidence of these alterations must be reckoned with in the future.
(4) Szczesny was also an athlete – he excelled at the javelin – but football gradually took over.
(5) There was more encouraging news for Britain with the 17-year-old Morgan Lake finishing in 17th place having also set a personal best in the javelin as she broke the 6,000 points mark with 6,081.
(6) Likely to go head to head with the London 2012 gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill at the world championships in Beijing in August, as well as at next year’s Olympics, Johnson-Thompson easily tops 1,000 points in five of her events but she struggles in the javelin and the shot.
(7) The shot and javelin are the clear weak points in my heptathlon so when Barrie thought of it [teaming up with Sayers] and brought it to me, it felt a stroke of genius for sure,” says Johnson-Thompson, who will compete in the British indoor championships in Sheffield this weekend and then the Birmingham indoor grand prix.
(8) After consoling a dejected Johnson-Thompson, who finished her heptathlon with a slow trudge round the 800m, Ennis-Hill refocused for a javelin competition that she knew could all but secure victory.
(9) And her achievement in winning with a total of 6,669 points following consistently impressive results in the long jump, javelin and 800m on Sunday was in some ways greater than that era-defining exercise in managing pressure three years ago.
(10) I try to mentally prepare for the javelin like I do all the other events, but you can’t help but have it in the back of your head that you are going to lose points.
(11) Consideration is also given to the effects of wind velocity, air density, javelin weight and the flutter and spin of the javelin on its flight.
(12) The incidence of spondylolysis is unusually high in ballet dancers and certain athletic groups, such as gymnasts, javelin throwers, and weight-lifters.
(13) If the news is confirmed, it would lead to Goldie Sayers, the British javelin record holder , and the British men’s 4x400m relay team, who both finished fourth in Beijing, belatedly being awarded bronze medals .
(14) "The big thing last year was getting ready for and then delivering an excellent Olympics because the Javelin service travelled over our line," says Shaw.
(15) Some of my events have been pretty poor or pretty standard but if I can go and get some proper training in there’s a lot more to come.” Ennis-Hill started day two in third place, behind Theisen-Eaton and the Dutch athlete Dafne Schippers, but after a moderate long jump of 6.16m and a javelin of 42.60m – both way below her best – she had slipped to fifth.
(16) Three different forms of enthesopathy involved the arm, principally the elbow, and may be tentatively correlated with javelin throwing, wood cutting, and archery.
(17) Among the names it mentioned were Mariya Abakumova, the javelin silver medallist, and Denis Alekseyev, who anchored Russia’s 4x400m team to bronze.
(18) The trouble with more effective weapons, such as the UK's Javelin, is that they need extensive training by experienced soldiers to be useful.
(19) I’ve got a great long jump and then I go into the javelin and everyone catches up, gains points or goes ahead of me and then I have to run my heart out in the 800m.” Improving her javelin would give her a mental edge too, she believes.
(20) In this paper, the scientific literature and that on the sports sciences relevant to javelin throwing is critically reviewed.
Mathematics
Definition:
(n.) That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(2) On the basis of mathematical models of the obtained dose-time-effect relationship, the risk of cancer occurrence due to small carcinogen doses is predicted.
(3) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
(4) The kinetic properties of the cell-free extracts fit mathematical models developed for in vitro systems reconstituted from purified enzymes.
(5) All of the multivariate data were treated with mathematic method of cluster analysis.
(6) Problems of calculations and predictions on more than two particles moving are known in mathematics and physics since a long time already.
(7) The normal anatomical position of the point of junction of the superficial cerebral veins with the superior sagittal and transverse sinuses of the rat was studied with an analytical mathematical method.
(8) Such measured courses may be mathematically modelled by the so-called BATEMAN function type, an expression consisting of 2 e-function terms.
(9) This review begins with a mathematical and qualitative description of the inverse problem in terms of epicardial potentials.
(10) For both cases, mathematical expressions as proposed and used by Sager are applied.
(11) Since the four determining coefficients may change over evolutionary time-scales, the mathematical results together with a natural selection argument proves that virulence gamma 2 attenuates.
(12) The selection of optimal parameters, development of valid measurement procedures, and use of mathematical modeling and descriptive statistics are necessary for quantitative studies by ultrasound of fetal organ growth.
(13) The mathematical model clearly predicts this decrease in concentration.
(14) The ability of a mathematical model to evaluate the effects of two different pain modulating procedures (partial nerve block and vibration) on acute experimental pulpal pain was studied.
(15) A mathematical model that abstracts the major features of the vegetative life cycle of Neurosopra crassa has been developed, and the action of selection in this model and various extensions of it is such as to maintain polymorphisms of vegetative incompatibility factors.
(16) Mathematical models describing the process of the patients treatment and permitting to pronosticate the blood and urine sugar level during the treatment were developed.
(17) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
(18) A mathematical treatment and an original microcalorimetric method are developed to verify an eventual competitive binding between any two substances for the same macromolecule.
(19) By means of the method of factor-geometric analysis using a computer DVK-3, mathematic calculations of the effectiveness of the operation were made.
(20) A mathematical model of cochlear processing is developed to account for the nonlinear dependence of frequency selectivity on intensity in inner hair cell and auditory nerve fiber responses.