(a.) Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.
(a.) Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard, etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
(2) This gives us the foundations to consider the method of evaluation of phenetic distances between natural groups of animals for the set of non-metric threshold skeletal traits more suitable for detection of genetical differentiation of wild populations.
(3) In reviewing recent progress concerning the motor system and drug action, the following subjects will be discussed on the basis of our data: 1) the mechanisms of action of mephenesin and baclofen, 2) baclofen and gamma-aminobutyric acid B (GABAB) receptor, 3) GABA-, benzodiazepine receptors, 4) control of spinal motor system by descending noradrenergic neuron, 5) pharmacology of the muscle spindle, and 6) pharmaco-metrics of centrally acting muscle relaxants.
(4) It is clear that the metric takes something – biodiversity and habitats – that are inherently very complex and tries to simplify them for easier decision-making.
(5) There are still areas where we focus on targets rather than outcomes as the key metrics of whether the NHS is performing well … We need to have a broader measure of what success is in the NHS and we need to do some careful thinking about how we achieve that.
(6) Forty-eight cranial metric and twenty-five cranial non-metric traits were scored on the left side of adult male crania from four North American Indian populations.
(7) But this metric is a good way to reward original source-finding.
(8) In addition, an electric field exposure metric is mechanistically consistent with a cell-surface interaction site.
(9) Multimeasurable systemic models have been constructed to demonstrate how quantitative indices of metrical properties of the capillaries depend on the cardiac size.
(10) It will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 900m metric tonnes, and save the equivalent of last year's imports of oil from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Libya and Nigeria combined.
(11) Some metric parameters (height and width, sizes of the isthmus the an angle between the corns) are given with the purpose of greater precision of roentgenological interpretation.
(12) The original metric system based on lenght (centimetre), mass (gramme) and time (second) has proved inadequate.
(13) These endeavoured to achieve a comprehension of the higher cortical functions on a metric basis.
(14) The distal phalanges are complete, however, and were analyzed metrically utilizing univariate and multivariate statistical techniques.
(15) By means of pH-metric and fluorescent analysis it was shown that vasopressin interacts with other membrane structures which have no specific receptors--phosphatidylcholinic liposomes and vesicles of sarcoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscles causing increasing permeability of phospholipid bilayer for Ca2+ ions.
(16) Added to this there are varying interpretations of the metric with at least three different calculation tools that CIEEM is aware of.
(17) Neanderthal teeth were significantly more metrically asymmetric than those of either Australopithecus or H. erectus, with population differences in asymmetry centered in the maxillary teeth.
(18) These days, rat poison is not just sown in the earth by the truckload, it is rained from helicopters that track the rats with radar – in 2011 80 metric tonnes of poison-laced bait were dumped on to Henderson Island, home to one of the last untouched coral reefs in the South Pacific.
(19) FORTRAN IV programs allow calculation of surface area, villous heights, and component volumes in metric units, and of volume proportions, volume-to-volume ratios, and surface-to-volume ratios.
(20) The occlusal contacts of teeth in a dentition have been analysed metrically with the aid of a new method.
Poetic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Poetical
Example Sentences:
(1) He knew his subject personally, having worked with him on the 1993 romantic drama Poetic Justice , in which the rapper starred opposite Janet Jackson.
(2) This creativity frequently emerges from an aesthetic, poetic sense of freedom derived from work, an uninhibited playful activity of exploring a medium for its own sake.
(3) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
(4) His own poetics emerged in The African Image (1962), a major contribution to the debate on African aesthetics.
(5) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
(6) "There is something extraordinarily poetic about smoking - from the gesture of holding a cigarette, turning it on, smoking it, the taste of it, the smell of it, I love every-thing about smoking."
(7) In a rather poetic-sounding list called the “fragility index” we are again somewhere at the bottom, or is it on top?
(8) So let's dry our guilt-induced " mermaid tears " – as these polluting plastic particles are poetically known – and face this issue.
(9) But know this America: they will be met.” The language was at its most poetic then too, with Obama signalling his promise to reduce inequality, for example, more elliptically than in later speeches: “The nation cannot prosper long when it favours only the prosperous”.
(10) That means "no longer romanticising terrorists as Robin Hoods and no longer idealising their deeds as rough poetic justice".
(11) At the end of the concert, this guy comes over with long hair and lipstick and he says ‘Hi how are you doing, I’m Brian Eno.’ I thought wow this is poetic justice … here’s Brian Eno listening to me, that’s great.
(12) The principle is that ordinary people have extraordinary thoughts — I've always believed that — and that ordinary people can speak poetically.
(13) His favourite book is The Poetic Edda, a landmark collection of Old Norse poetry.
(14) A Stoßgebet is a last-ditch prayer, and Schoß is a poetic term for female genitals.
(15) On the other hand, the discrepancies and absurdities, appearing again and again in his poetic products, are due to his habit of taking dream and its illogical connections as a model.
(16) And I suppose she has a poetic sensibility in that way."
(17) Their music has long been free of such unnecessary clutter as metaphor, allegory, and poetic conceit.
(18) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
(19) So the Middle East continues to implode – but amid the chaos emerges a further force, perhaps incredibly, a poetic and literary one.
(20) If this is close enough, Canelo may have a chance in Mayweather-Alvarez III, but clear unanimous points decision for my boyo Floyd in this one Daniel SanMateo rather poetically emails (read to the final paragraph): Mayweather looked formidable on the weighing day, but seemed not to be taking too seriously his opponent.