(n. pl.) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
(n. pl.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) The New York Times' Nate Silver does that thing he does where he uses data to explain everything you ever wanted to know about a particular subject: Support for same-sex marriage is increasing — but is it doing so at a faster rate than in the past?
(2) "We've always wanted to do something like this, but there were limitations in the past that prevented us from doing it," marketing manager Nate Weinstein told the Associated Press.
(3) 4.59pm BST "My fiancee have decided to get married in whichever country wins the World Cup so this game really has me torn," sobs Nate Philipps.
(4) "Four members of Hertha's first team squad use only one name," writes Nate Elliott.
(5) The festival programme also features Nate Parker’s new American epic, The Birth of a Nation , which won the grand jury prize at the Sundance festival at the beginning of the year.
(6) Meanwhile, there’s a core of first baseman Anthony Rizzo, shortstop Starlin Castro and outfield Nate Schierholtz, who just have to get better if there’s to be any offensive improvement.
(7) That matches a similar percentage Republicans needed to win the house before the 2010 elections, and is very similar to a curve produced by Nate Silver before the 2012 elections.
(8) The Nationals may have little choice but to lean on Nate McLouth, a former Pirates, Braves and Orioles outfielder, for whom they dropped $10.75m on over two years this past offseason for in for situations such as these - so far he's hitting .111.
(9) I guess the moral of the story is: don’t trust the polls, not even Nate Silver.
(10) On the other hand, Nate Silver, the New York Times election data blogger, could demonstrably show that a disproportionate amount of Times traffic came to him personally.
(11) Denver's Wilson Chandler scored 17 points, Nate Robinson added 16, and Kenneth Faried had a key block and transition dunk with 33 seconds left to lift the Nuggets past the Washington Wizards 75-74.
(12) Family, colleagues and MPs pay tribute to PC Keith Palmer Read more Nate Kizerian, a longtime friend, said Cochran was a vital member of the local music scene.
(13) Illustration: Nate Kitch for the Guardian Slahi’s new cell was to be structured to prevent light from shining in.
(14) I’ve lived here for 20 years and I lost count of the number of times I was stopped and frisked by the police by the time I was in high school,” said Nate Jeffrey, 32, a mechanic with the city’s transit authority.
(15) 6-Cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione and 7-chlorokynure-nate suppressed the NMDA response but significantly less potently in cerebellar mRNA-injected oocytes than in cerebral mRNA-injected oocytes.
(16) The neonatal death nate and the incidence of IVH were significantly higher in infants weighing less than 750g than in those weighing 1,000g or more.
(17) Darryl Roberts put one in late in the 43rd minute and Nate Thornton finished the job in the 90th minute.
(18) This challenge was explaining the news , with Vox.com joining Nate Silver's ESPN-backed FiveThirtyEight site and the New York Times' The Upshot in a new wave of data-driven explanatory news services .
(19) We should have expected far more ‘shy Tories’.” Nate Silver, the man once lauded as an elections oracle for his detailed predictions, was wildly out, putting the Conservatives at “about 280 seats, Labour at about 265”.
(20) The polls swung about one percentage point in Obama’s direction shortly thereafter, Nate Silver estimated .
Umbo
Definition:
(n.) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
(n.) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.
(n.) One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) The position, displacement and phase angle of the rotation axis of the ossicles was calculated based on the displacement and phase angle of the umbo, malleus head and lenticular process.
(2) The bending will also affect the displacements transmitted to the ossicular load, and introduce significant errors into estimates of such displacements based on measurements of umbo displacement even at frequencies as low as a few kHz.
(3) The umbo region may represent the center of superficially radial dispersion.
(4) The epithelial migration center was found at the region of umbo, manubrium, and the short process of the malleus.
(5) It is demonstrated that the rotation angels can not account for the measured movement of the umbo, which leads to the conclusion that for static high pressure levels the classical hypothesis of rotation around a fixed axis has to be abandoned.
(6) There is a small area we have termed the "slow zone", located anterior and inferior to the umbo, that has comparatively fewer patches and where ink dots can remain static for several weeks.
(7) This attachment is most intimate at the level of the umbo and becomes progressively more tenuous as the short process is approached.
(8) It is shown further that a linear relationship between umbo displacement and volume displacement exists.
(9) The acoustically estimated "drum location" generally lay between the optically determined vertical planes containing the TOD and the umbo.
(10) The displacement of the umbo is compared to other work.
(11) All of the modifications (except the perforation) had a minimal effect on umbo displacement; this seems to imply that the pars flaccida has a minor acoustic role in human beings.
(12) Due to the gliding movement in the malleus-incus joint, this motion changes at the umbo into outward rotation, counteracting the tensor tympani muscle.
(13) When the motion is rotational the position of the axis of rotation shifts with frequency, the shifts are so large that the axis can lie near the umbo so that amplitudes at the processus lateralis are larger than at the umbo.
(14) The umbo moved piston-like at 0.1-0.8 kHz and 2.6-4.5 kHz but in an ellipse at 1.0-2.4 kHz.
(15) The vibration amplitude and phase angle of the umbo, malleus head, lenticular process and stapes head were measured at 19 frequencies between 0.1 kHz and 4.5 kHz.
(16) The malleus head showed elliptical movement with its long axis anteriorly tilted around 45 degrees from the direction of the umbo vibration at 0.1 kHz.
(17) As a result of the bending, the frequency response at the umbo at high frequencies displays much higher amplitudes and larger phase lags than when the manubrium is rigid.
(18) The effects of aditus blockage, decrease of tympanic cavity volume, and resection of the tensor tympani muscle on umbo displacement were studied in human temporal bones using a new non-contacting video measuring system.
(19) The umbo, lenticular process and stapes head vibrated parallel at lower frequencies.
(20) The three-dimensional movements of the umbo, the proc.