(n.) One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.
(n.) An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.
(n.) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
(n.) Alt. of Metre
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
(2) On the initial visit, the best corrected acuity with spectacles was determined and a potential acuity meter reading was obtained; this test suggested potential for visual recovery in two of the three patients.
(3) In 20 adult patients with asthma, we evaluated bronchodilation to a single administration of metered-dose glycopyrrolate aerosol (GA) to ascertain its onset and duration of action along with evaluation of safety.
(4) The volume of exhaled gas, during three- to five-minute collection periods, was measured and the fraction of exhaled CO2 was determined by a CO2 meter.
(5) All drugs were administered by metered dose inhalers.
(6) Patients should be carefully instructed in the optimal use of metered-dose inhalers, and some patients may benefit from use of tube-spacers.
(7) The ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by the following formula: ideal body mass index x the height (m)2, since body mass index is expressed by the body weight in kilogram divided by the height squared in meters.
(8) The developed apparatus included ultrasonic generators operating at a frequency of 0.5-3 MHz, piezoceramic radiators of various design providing the heating of an object with convergent, divergent and plane ultrasonic waves, thermoprobes in the form of single or multiple thermocouples with the bends from 5 points at a 5 mm distance from one another, temperature meters and various auxiliaries.
(9) The Pearson correlations between serum bilirubin and jaundice meter measurements were .75 for meter 1 and .76 for meter 2.
(10) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(11) The use of a standard 35 mm camera with a spot metering system to take slit-lamp photographs is described.
(12) The time required to empty a one litre bag of Ringer's Lactate from a 1.0 meter vertical drop was measured while using four different IV catheters (9.5, 10, 14 and 16 gauge), and the flow rates calculated.
(13) Endogenous rhythm of activity tended to disappear in specimens maintained under constant pressure conditions equivalent to 20 meters depth.
(14) When I tried to submit my latest gas and electricity meter readings on the npower website last month I received an email telling me that because all customers are being moved to a new billing system no meter readings can be taken online or via the call centre until after 15 April 2014.
(15) Measurements were made before feedings, during the first part of the night, and evaporation rate values were expressed as grams per square meter of body surface area per hour.
(16) A digital constancy meter which has been used in our institution uses a plane-parallel chamber for daily morning output checks of treatment machines.
(17) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Install 2 kilowatt solar PV panels 0.4 Buy a new A++ refrigerator if yours is more than 4 years old, and only use a small-screen TV 0.1 Use LED or fluorescent lights where you currently have halogen lights installed 0.1 Buy an automated system to turn off appliances when not in use; get a meter that shows actual energy use and use it to monitor your household 0.1 Only use your washing machine and dishwasher when full to capacity and at lowest temperature 0.1 Never use the tumble dryer 0.1 Get rid of the freezer if you can, and replace your small appliances with "eco" varieties 0.1 Car (1.5 tonnes of CO 2 ) There is one car for every two people in the UK, and each one travels an average of about 9,000 miles a year.
(18) There was no difference in rates for persons who lived at sea level, compared to those who lived between 600 and 1800 meters.
(19) Npower blamed its planned rises on increases in wholesale gas and electricity costs and the cost of delivering government policies, such as smart metering and subsidies for renewable energy.
(20) Aqueous cells and flare of both eyes were measured by a laser flare-cell meter (KOWA FC 100).
Prosody
Definition:
(n.) That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that use of vibrotactile stimulation enhanced D's production and resulted in listeners' perceptions of correct prosody.
(2) Assessment of all components of dysarthria, including resonance, articulation, phonation, respiration, and prosody, is stressed along with motivational and medical considerations.
(3) It was hypothesized that the acoustically anomalous features are linked to a common underlying deficit relating to speech prosody.
(4) Subjects were then asked to read out a list of sentences either stressing a nominated word (stress prosody expression) or conveying a nominated emotion (emotional prosody expression), and their efforts were rated by a panel of normal raters.
(5) This research examined the influence of mood-congruent and mood-incongruent contexts on recognizing affective prosody after brain damage.
(6) The results are discussed in regard to recent hypotheses for a privileged role of the right hemisphere in the organization of speech prosody.
(7) The present investigation was designed to determine the influence of stressed word prosody on auditory comprehension by listeners with aphasia.
(8) The present article provides a linguistic analysis of Monrad-Krohn's famous description of a patient with deviant prosody (1947).
(9) The striking disorder of prosody in Parkinson's disease relates to motor control, not to a loss of the linguistic knowledge required to make prosodic distinctions.
(10) Evidence linking neurophysiologic mechanisms with components of prosody is presented.
(11) Comparison of similar right and left, cortical (frontoparietal), and subcortical (capsule and basal ganglia) lesions suggested, but did not prove, that the RH pure prosody impairment is cortical whereas the RH tonal-semantic mismatch categorization impairment involves subcortical as well as cortical contributions.
(12) It appears that prosody, language and the motor planning of speech are integrated at a basal ganglia level.
(13) The present study examines laterality for affective and linguistic prosody using the dichotic listening paradigm.
(14) Young and elderly adults heard recorded passages of English prose spoken with and without normal prosody, and passages that were devoid of either linguistic or prosodic structure.
(15) Significant intergroup differences were found in the prosody production tasks but, in contrast to previous results, not in the receptive tasks on the recognition and appreciation of prosody and of facial expression.
(16) They may show a lack of spontaneous prosody or gesturing.
(17) It has been suggested that the non-dominant hemisphere is specialized for receptive and expressive music and prosody.
(18) In addition, expression of automatic speech such as singing, emotion, and possibly prosody can also influence mouth asymmetry, but in the opposite direction, suggesting a relatively greater right-hemisphere role for these types of expression.
(19) Hernández re-creates not only their rustic speech, but also the natural prosody peculiar to the peasant.
(20) HD patients were impaired in comprehension of both types of prosody compared to controls but were not different from stroke patients.