(n.) An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes of position exhibit its contents in an endless variety of beautiful colors and symmetrical forms. It has been much employed in arts of design.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recognition memory was tested for lists of 6 briefly (0.08 s) presented pictures at different interstimulus intervals (ISI) of 0.08, 1, and 4 s. Experiment 1 showed a 16% performance increase (ISI effect) for increasing ISI for travel slide but not kaleidoscope pictures.
(2) The whole point was that it was more of a kaleidoscopic exploration of the treatment of homegrown radicalisation,” said Latif, “to explore the breadth of opinion that is out there.
(3) William Bobo’s book Glimpses of New York (1852) describes a stream of beings in bonnets, caps and tall hats as “one grand kaleidoscope in perpetual motion”.
(4) This is a war that has failed in every one of its ever-shifting kaleidoscope of aims: from destroying the Taliban and al-Qaida, to bringing democracy and women's rights, to eradicating opium production.
(5) The best World Cups offer a kaleidoscope of images and this brilliantly-staged oval-ball extravaganza outdid anything the game has seen.
(6) Brought to you by: Cutting emissions and saving money through teleconferencing Wayne Visser is director of Kaleidoscope Futures and a senior associate at the University of Cambridge.
(7) "Their regime was a kaleidoscope of perceptions and positions and conflicting interests constantly tumbling over one another and rearranging themselves," the eminent Israeli historian Tom Segev wrote in his account of the British Mandate era, One Palestine, Complete .
(8) These are the moments when Liverpool , to borrow a line from the kaleidoscope of colours on the Kop's banners, are making their supporters dream.
(9) A selective mechanism is described whereby kaleidoscopic changes in primary structure at variable sites are indefinitely promoted, independently of any environmental changes and with the molecule remaining close to a state of maximal overall adaptation.
(10) "Kaleidoscope was born because a lot of us felt there was a need for an organisation that would focus all its efforts internationally," said said Lance Price, a Kaleidoscope founding member and former 10 Downing Street media adviser.
(11) It’s like a washed-out, weird kaleidoscope full of heyday and hope Port Elizabeth is a blue-collar town with white-collar aspirations.
(12) What are we saying about ourselves when we place (black) women’s pain under a microscope only to better consume the full kaleidoscope of their suffering?
(13) The Temple offers a kaleidoscope of incense-scented mayhem, where golden centaurs and exotic urns sprawl alongside zodiac drapes and musky shrines to the Virgin Mary, Lakshmi and other female icons.
(14) Rei Kawakubo, the founder of Comme des Garçons: Weird pink kaleidoscope prints!
(15) It happened 40 years ago and it's all very complicated – a shifting kaleidoscope of religious and linguistic difference and political loyalties, animated by old prejudices and fresh desires.
(16) Kaleidoscope is described by its director, Lance Price, thus: "First, we're being driven by the experience of the people in the countries we're talking about.
(17) Kaleidoscope intends to leave UK gay rights campaigning to long-established advocacy group Stonewall.
(18) But there are signs everywhere that the kaleidoscope that constantly shifts the pieces of this puzzle is going to turn again.
(19) Curriculum vitae Age 59 Education Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (history); University College, Oxford (PPE) Career 1970 writer, Rolling Stone magazine 1973 presenter, Radio 1 1974 presenter, Radio 4 arts show Kaleidoscope 1983 founder member, TV-am 1992 launch team, Classic FM 1995 Radio 3 1996 Radio Academy's Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio award 1998 presenter, Classic FM 2005 inducted into Radio Academy Hall of Fame 2008 host, Counterpoint music quiz, Radio 4
(20) The Peter Tatchell Foundation is supporting a coalition – the Commonwealth Equality Network , coordinated by Kaleidoscope Trust – which is lobbying to get LGBTI rights on the agenda of the 2018 Commonwealth summit.
Succession
Definition:
(n.) The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.
(n.) A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.
(n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.
(n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne.
(n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.
(n.) The person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
(2) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(3) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(4) Recently, it has been shown that radiation therapy, alone or combined with chemotherapy, can be successful.
(5) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(6) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
(7) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(8) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(9) In this study, standby and prophylactic patients had comparable success and major complication rates, but procedural morbidity was more frequent in prophylactic patients.
(10) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
(11) Different therapeutic success rates have been reported by various authors who used the same combination of therapy.
(12) The success in these two infertile patients who had already undergone lengthy psychotherapy is promising.
(13) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(14) Fitch said there was “material risk to the success of the restructuring”.
(15) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(16) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
(17) Thus, successful thrombolysis decreases the frequency of ventricular ectopic activity and late potentials in the early postinfarction phase.
(18) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(19) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(20) First treatment consisted of six-hour infusions on six successive days.