(n.) That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
(n.) A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.
(n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
(n.) Numerousness; multitude.
(n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
(n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
(n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
(n.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.
(n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.
(n.) To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.
(n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
(n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.
(n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(3) When micF was cloned into a high-copy-number plasmid it repressed ompF gene expression, whereas when cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid it did not.
(4) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(5) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
(6) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(7) The hemodynamic efficiency of the drive was tested in a number of in vivo experiments.
(8) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
(9) On removal of selective pressure, the His+ phenotype was lost more readily than the Ura+ Trp+ markers, with a corresponding decrease in plasmid copy number.
(10) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(11) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(12) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
(13) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(14) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(15) The number of neoplastic cells in each cell suspension was determined by cytologic criteria.
(16) aeruginosa and Enterococci) were significantly reduced in number during the manipulation (Fig.
(17) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(18) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
(19) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(20) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
Propagation
Definition:
(n.) The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants.
(n.) The spreading abroad, or extension, of anything; diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation of the gospel.
Example Sentences:
(1) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
(2) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
(3) The ruffles of the sub-marginal cells showed different characteristics, being longer and not propagated successively as were the marginal ruffles.
(4) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
(5) However the study does not permit to reach any valid conclusions; further elaborate investigations alone could prove the useful role of genetic influence in the propagation of lepromin sensitivity to the subsequent sibs.
(6) This has stemmed from an inadequate understanding of the mechanisms involved in the formation and propagation of this condition.
(7) The E2A mutants were propagated by growth in human cell lines which express an integrated copy of the DBP gene under the control of a dexamethasone-inducible promoter (D. F. Klessig, D. E. Brough, and V. Cleghon, Mol.
(8) Phage H propagated on Yersinia pestis was reported by Molnar and Lawton to be rapidly adsorbed to female but not to male strains of Escherichia coli.
(9) The re-examination of previous data revealed that Caenorhabditis elegans produced 1.8% 24-methyl-23-dehydrocholesterol when propagated in medium containing campesterol.
(10) In 40 subjects the propagation sequence of phasic contractions could be evaluated and were simultaneous in 53%, antegrade in 35%, and retrograde in 11% of the waves.
(11) It is concluded that a number of mechanisms can account for the conduction failure resulting from phospholipase A2, including disruption of sodium channels needed for propagation of regenerative nerve impulses and the depletion of high energy phosphates needed to maintain ionic gradients.
(12) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
(13) Following the 1000-kJ but not the 4200-kJ meal, 10 mg cisapride increased total number of contractions, number of propagated contractions, mean amplitude, and area under curve significantly more than placebo.
(14) This phenomenon seems to be due to the generation of surface waves and a corresponding fluid zone into which these waves are also partially propagated.
(15) After 4 months of propagation, this cell line regularly showed 15 to 40% reactive cells.
(16) Because they prevent secondary capsular opacification and anterior vitreous propagation, it appears that such barrier-type implants should be systematically placed.
(17) Propagation and activity level of 18 enzymes catalyzing deamination reactions of dicarboxylic and oxyamino acids and enzymes of amino acid reamination and amino acid N-acyl-derivatives' deacylation have been studied in Klebsiella bacteria.
(18) The reaction studied, thus, appears to be the chain branching and propagation phase of lipoperoxidation.
(19) Study of the growth characteristics of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a relatively well-organized, slow-growing skin cancer, has been limited because of the lack of methods for propagation of the tumor off the human host.
(20) In cells treated with ion across membranes, tip to base propagation was seen only in the presence of EGTA; when calcium was added the majority of organisms propagated waves from base to tip.