(a.) Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization.
Example Sentences:
(1) The crystals are monoclinic, space group C2, with a = 57.18 A, b = 21.63 A, c = 36.40 A, beta = 95.22 degrees, and one hairpin molecule per asymmetric unit.
(2) The space group symmetry is R21; the monoclinic unit cell contains two molecules and has the dimensions a = 12.4291(8), b = 7.4511(5), c = 12.7854(7) angstroms and beta = 102.295(7) degrees.
(3) Pure monoclinic or triclinic calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystals, apatite crystals or mixtures of these crystals were injected into the synovial-like space created by the rat air pouch to compare the acute inflammation induced by these crystals.
(4) Crystals of 3 are monoclinic: P2(1), a = 5.317(2), b = 17.059(6), c = 9.514(3) A, beta = 99.18(3), Z = 2.
(5) C10H8F4N10O18, Mr = 632.22, monoclinic, Pc, a = 7.8885 (6), b = 6.7787 (4), c = 21.595 (2) A, beta = 108.21 (1) degree, V = 1096 (1) A3, Z = 2, Dx = 1.914 g cm-3, lambda(Cu K alpha) = 1.5418 A, mu = 18.7 cm-1, F(000) = 636, T = 293 K, 1791 unique data, 1733 with I greater than 3 sigma (I), R = 0.047.
(6) A large number of epitaxially dimensional matches between MSU and triclinic (t) and monoclinic (m) CPPD were identified, suggesting that MSU crystals can epitaxially induce CPPD crystal growth.
(7) C16H22NO+2.Cl-, Mr = 295.808, monoclinic, P2(1), a = 11.967 (1), b = 12.529 (1), c = 9.9369 (9) A, beta = 93.00 (1) degrees, V = 1487.8 (2) A3, Z = 4, Dm = 1.32 (2), Dx = 1.321 Mg m-3, lambda(Cu K alpha) = 1.54178 A, mu(Cu K alpha) = 2.289 mm-1, F(000) = 632, T = 291 K, final R = 0.040 for 2448 observed reflections.
(8) 7120 flavodoxin belong to the monoclinic space group P2(1) with a = 48.0, b = 32.0, c = 51.6 A, and beta = 92 degrees, and one molecule in the asymmetric unit.
(9) Crystals grown from ammonium sulfate solutions belong to monoclinic space group C2 with a = 125 A, b = 111 A, c = 83.5 A and beta = 108degrees 45'.
(10) These crystals are monoclinic, space group C2, with unit cell dimensions, a = 2.845 nm, b = 1.354 nm, c = 3.413 nm, beta = 98.6 degrees.
(11) Form II crystallizes as monoclinic blocks, space group P21 with a = 64.5 A, b = 35.1 A, c = 25.2 A and beta = 91.8 degrees.
(12) L-Valyl-L-lysine hydrochloride, C11N3O3H23 HCl, crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2(1) with a = 5.438(5), b = 14.188(5), c = 9.521(5) A, beta = 95.38(2) degrees and Z = 2.
(13) The unit cell is monoclinic, space group P2(1), with unit cell parameters: a = 41.4 A, b = 40.1 A, c = 37.5 A, beta = 90.01 degrees.
(14) GPb complexed with pyridoxal 5'-diphosphate (PLPP) has been crystallized in the presence of IMP and ammonium sulfate in the monoclinic R-state crystal form and the structure refined from X-ray data to 2.8 A resolution to a crystallographic R value of 0.21.
(15) The crystals are monoclinic with unit cell dimensions a = 121.2 A, b = 110.5 A, c = 81.8 A, and beta = 97.6 degrees, belonging to space group C2, and contain two molecules in the asymmetric unit.
(16) One grows as monoclinic plates, space group P2(1), with cell dimensions a = 66.9 A, b = 75.2 A, c = 86.9 A and beta = 102.9 degrees and the other as long hexagonal rods in space group P6(1)22 or P6(5)22, with cell dimensions a = b = 119 A, c = 83 A.
(17) To ascertain the sites that are available for strong binding between magnesium ions and phosphate groups in yeast phenylalanine transfer RNA, all distances below 5.5 A separating the phosphoryl oxygens (Op) of the 76 nucleotide residues have been computed from the latest atomic coordinates for the monoclinic form of the tRNA crystallized in the presence of magnesium chloride.
(18) One of them is monoclinic, space group P21, with unit cell dimensions a = 145.6 A, b = 78.1 A, c = 63.1 A, beta = 89.05 degrees, consistent with the presence of two molecules of the complex in the asymmetric unit.
(19) The crystals are monoclinic space group P2(1) with a = 42.6, b = 68.1, c = 50.2 A and beta = 112.9 degrees.
(20) Crystals are monoclinic, space group P2(1) with a = 5.088(2), b = 17.112(17), c = 9.581(6) A, beta = 92.34(4) degrees, Z = 2.
Perpendicular
Definition:
(a.) Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth.
(a.) At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc.
(n.) A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.
(n.) A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our data support the hypothesis that evoked and epileptiform magnetic fields result from intradendritic currents oriented perpendicular to the cortical surface.
(2) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(3) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
(4) The helix axes, penetrating the hydrophobic region of the bilayers, were oriented neither parallel nor perpendicular to the membrane normal.
(5) We show that over a limited range of high spatial frequencies this noise takes on a striated appearance, with the striations running perpendicular to the true fringe orientation.
(6) The AFB1 moiety is face-stacked in the major groove with its long axis approximately perpendicular to the helix axis.
(7) The two molecules in the asymmetric unit form a dimer with its 2-fold axis perpendicular to and intersecting with a crystallographic 4(1) axis.
(8) Interestingly, the helical motif prefers to assemble parallel to the wall, whereas the beta-barrel, predominantly assembles with its principal axis perpendicular to the wall.
(9) The numerals were either upright, or inverted, or rotated perpendicular to the arm axis.
(10) Parameters measured from simulator films included: (a) the perpendicular distance from the posterior tangential field edge to the posterior part of the anterior chest wall at the center of the field (CLD); (b) the maximum perpendicular distance from the posterior tangential field edge to the posterior part of the anterior chest wall (MLD); and (c) the length of lung (L) as measured at the posterior tangential field edge on the simulator film.
(11) Our results suggest that the first stage is much more selective for orientation than are lateral geniculate nucleus cells, but that the first-stage orientation bandwidth is rather wide with some interaction occurring between perpendicular orientations.
(12) In slices cut parallel to the pyramidal neurons (perpendicular to the brain surface) one can study chemosensitivity of the various parts of the dendritic tree and the soma.
(13) The bands encircle the muscle fiber perpendicular to the long axis of the fiber and they matched the sites of attachment of the sarcomeres to the plasma membrane.
(14) Thin section analysis of capped cells revealed an abundance of microtubules immediately beneath the cap which were arranged approximately perpendicular to the plane of the membrane.
(15) This procedure allowed both light and electron microscopic examination of serial-step sections of individual cells cut in a plane perpendicular to the monolayer.
(16) If a segment of a line differs in luminance or color from the rest of the line, three illusory phenomena may be perceived: a reduction in contrast of the line segment relative to the background, subjective contours running perpendicularly to the ends of the line segment, and spread of color or brightness surrounding the line segment.
(17) Typically they lie perpendicular to the cell membrane of the pinealocyte polar process and in close proximity to a polar process of a neighboring cell.
(18) The results of the scattering experiments were almost independent of whether the NaDNA fibers were oriented parallel or perpendicular to the momentum transfer.
(19) Instruments should be rotated perpendicular to the margin from gold to enamel.
(20) The method uses overlapping of Pi1, 3 and 4 in perfect centering of the lens in the axis of the eye (it is assessed by drawing a perpendicular line on the centre of the cornea) and marked dislocation of Pi3 in the direction of decentration of the planoconvex lens with the convexity facing the cornea.