(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.
Valence
Definition:
(n.) The degree of combining power of an atom (or radical) as shown by the number of atoms of hydrogen (or of other monads, as chlorine, sodium, etc.) with which it will combine, or for which it can be substituted, or with which it can be compared; thus, an atom of hydrogen is a monad, and has a valence of one; the atoms of oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon are respectively dyads, triads, and tetrads, and have a valence respectively of two, three, and four.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mixed-valence-state cytochrome oxidase mixed with O2 at -24 degrees C and flash-photolysed at -60 to -100 degrees C reacts with O2 and initially forms an oxy compound (A2) similar to that formed from the fully reduced state (A1).
(2) Additional results, together with simulations based on a simple kinetic model, suggest that the reduced apparent valence of the low slope component of the Q-V curve results from gating charge immobilization occurring at holding potential.
(3) A related explanation is that the 609 nm absorbance involves a charge-transfer interaction of both iron and copper as a mixed-valence binuclear complex, Cua3, having properties of a non-blue copper.
(4) RBDs were significantly more impaired than LBDs or NCs on category and valence accuracy, while LBDs posed expressions with significantly more intensity than RBDs or NCs.
(5) The extent of adsorption was affected by the concentration and valency of cations, indicating a charge-dependent process.
(6) Use of that principle was demonstrated by fourth grade children who judged that telling the truth, as opposed to lying, was shown by a consistency between the affective valence of the verbal and the nonverbal communications.
(7) Research reported here shows that primary and transferred releasing valences are differentially affected by environmental variables.
(8) Furthermore, the valences of all ions in solution on both sides of the membrane are taken to be of equal absolute magnitude.
(9) Possible valence bond structures for 3-methylpurine residues in DNA are discussed, leading to the suggestion that ionized forms with positively charged amino groups may be the most effective blocks to template activity.
(10) A confirmatory factor analysis on these subscales showed that the Affective Valence, Empathic Caring, Self-Sacrifice, and Societies' Duties subscales each reflect a humanitarian concern for children and that the Instrumentality and Authoritarian Attitude subscales tap values involving a moralistic expectation of children.
(11) The excitatory potential, the involvement potential, and the hedonic valence of the nonerotic and erotic stimuli were also assessed.
(12) A monovalent form of concanavalin A (m-Con A) has been prepared to determine the importance of valence for human lymphocyte surface binding and subsequent lymphocyte stimulation as measured by blast transformation and cytotoxicity.
(13) As concerns the valence of the natural focus, the most important was the inundated forest in the Drnholec locality.
(14) Examination of the antigen dose-response curves and maximal responses obtained suggests that valency of the antigen may be important both in determining the avidity of interaction between the pCTL and the antigen-bearing structure, and in determining the extent to which localized receptor cross-linking occurs on the cell surface to result in triggering.
(15) Therefore, no conclusions about biological valence and tumour localisation could be drawn from the aspect of the cell picture which we observed and from the degree of pleocytosis.
(16) During presentation of pictures with negative valence the m. frontalis lateralis and the m. corrugator supercilii revealed enhanced EMG-reactions as compared to the repeated presentation of pictures with positive valence.
(17) The degree and the character of these changes depend on cation valency and the initial value of cell EM.
(18) Maximum adsorption at 23 degrees C occurred within 2 h. The amounts of DNA which adsorbed to sand increased with the salt concentration (0.1 to 4 M NaCl and 1 mM to 0.2 M MgCl2), salt valency (Na+ less than Mg2+ and Ca2+), and pH (5 to 9).
(19) The influence of valence and heavy chain on antibody activity was investigated using transfectoma-derived, class-switched IgG1 and IgM human monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) reactive with the bacterial pathogens Escherichia coli K1 and group B Streptococcus species.
(20) The obtained data allows to suggest that one of the possible mechanisms of 6-ONDA neurotoxic action includes the generation of superoxide, whose dismutation to hydrogen peroxide in the presence of transient valency ions gives rise to HO.